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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Hugh Thomson
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In 1823, after relatively undistinguished diplomatic missions to
Sicily and China, Lord Amherst (1773 1857) was appointed
Governor-general of Bengal, a compromise candidate following
Canning's sudden withdrawal to become foreign secretary. Arriving
in India, he found the country on the brink of war with Burma,
which he was unable to prevent or quickly to resolve, resulting in
an expensive and demoralising two-year campaign, and the death of
his eldest son. This 1894 biography, written by Anne Thackeray
Ritchie (1837 1919), elder daughter of the novelist, and journalist
Richardson Evans (1846 1923), was part of a series established by
Sir William Wilson Hunter (1840 1900), a former Administrator in
the subcontinent. Decidedly flattering in tone and glossing the War
as 'a glorious enterprise of arms', this book, which quotes
extensively from Lady Amherst's diary and other contemporary
sources, is a fascinating example of the late-Victorian
presentation of earlier colonial administration.
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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