Ritchie, Anne Isabella

Contains manuscript drafts, typescripts, transcripts and notes, proof sheets and other printed material of many works by Anne Ritchie including essays, autobiographical writings and short stories, c1864-1918.

Ann Isabella Ritchie was the elder daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1861), a well-known Victorian novelist. Anne was a prolific novelist, essayist and writer of memoirs. By 1875, The Works of Miss Thackeray had been published in eight volumes (Smith, Elder & Company), extended to 15 volumes by 1866. Most of her critical essays appeared in The Cornhill Magazine . Her first contribution appeared in the magazine's first year, 1860, and most of her fiction appeared serially in the magazine including, The Village on the Cliff , Old Kensington , Miss Angel and Mrs. Dymond . She died in 1919.

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Joan Gibbs, Handlist of the Literary Manuscripts of Lady (Anne Isabella) Ritchie in the University of London Library , University of London Library (1981) [Based on notes made for incorporation in vol. II, pp. 1036-43 of Jennie Huie, Anne Thackeray (afterwards Lady Ritchie) , University of London Ph.D. thesis (1961)]

East Sussex Record Office, Lewes, holds miscellaneous letters, 1865-1876 (Ref: Locker-Lampson MSS); Surrey History Centre, Woking, has letters to Lucy Etheldred Broadwood, 1894-1909 (Ref: 2185); Dartmouth College Library, New Hampshire, USA, contains correspondence with the Curtis family, 1905-1915 (Ref: NUC MS 71-1013); the Brotherton Library, Leeds University, holds letters to Sir Edmund William Gosse, 1895-1915, and letters to Clement King Shorter; Eton College Library, Windsor, has letters from Fanny (Francis Anne) Kemble, [1861-1888] and correspondence, biographical notes, magazine articles, drafts of poetry etc. and various other manuscript items of Anne Ritchie c1864-1918, (previously held at University of London Library as MS 907) ; the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, contains letters to Elizabeth, Lady Lewis (Ref: MS Dep c836); Beinecke Library, Yale University, Connecticut, USA, holds letters to the Locker-Lampson family, 1865-1876 (Ref: Locker-Lampson MSS); the British Library, London, holds correspondence with Macmillans, 1884-1916 (Ref: Add MS 54969), and letters from her father, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1843-1859 (Ref: Add MSS 46892-46894); Trinity College Library, Cambridge University, has letters to Henry Sidgwick (Ref: Add Ms c95/144-150); the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, contains letters to Mrs M C M Simpson, [1860-1907] (Ref: Nassau Senior); the National Portrait Gallery Archive, London, holds letters to George Frederic and Mary Watts, 1886-1903; Hove Central Library has letters to Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, and Louisa, Lady Wolseley, 1889-1911 (Ref: Wolseley).

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