Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919) was a writer and the eldest
daughter of the novelist W. M. Thackeray. She had a tumultuous
childhood: her mother suffered from depression and was eventually
committed to a sanatorium, and the family experienced poverty
before her father's literary success. Anne was extremely close to
her father, who admired her intellect and encouraged her writing.
When he died, Anne set up house with her sister Harriet and her
brother-in-law, the literary journalist Leslie Stephen. Anne's
novels were serialised in the Cornhill Magazine, which her father
had edited, and their success established her literary reputation.
A Book of Sibyls is Anne's study of four female writers: the poet
Anna Laetitia Barbauld and the novelists Amelia Opie, Maria
Edgeworth and Jane Austen. For more information on this author, see
http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=ritcan
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