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Ritchie, Anne Isabella: letter


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL 314

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Ritchie, Anne Isabella: letter

Date(s): [1889-1893]

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 sheet

Name of creator(s): Ritchie | Anne Isabella | 1837-1919 | née Thackeray | novelist and biographer x Thackeray | Anne Isabella

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Anne Isabella Ritchie was born in 1837, the elder daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1861), a well-known Victorian novelist. Anne (Anny) was a prolific novelist, essayist and writer of memoirs. By 1875, The Works of Miss Thackeray had been published in eight volumes (Smith, Elder and 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. Anne Thackeray married her cousin, Richmond Thackeray Willoughby Ritchie, in 1877; their son's wife Margaret Paulina Ritchie was the daughter of Charles and Mary Booth. Richie died in 1919.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Anne Isabella Ritchie, [1889-1893], comprise a letter to Lady Blumfield, written on mourning paper.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Torn.

Finding aids:

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Unknown

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: April 2008


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Ritchie | Lady | Anne Isabella | 1837-1919 | née Thackeray | novelist and biographer x Thackeray | Anne Isabella

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