Anny: A Life of Anny Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography of Anny Thackeray Ritchie

Anny: A Life of Anny Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography of Anny Thackeray Ritchie

By

Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, was also a fine writer. Based on new and original research, this enchanting and evocative memoir paints the world of Anny's intricate web of relations and friends: children's parties with the Dickens family, holidays with Julia Margaret Cameron and the Tennysons, intimate scenes with Browning in Rome and Ruskin on Lake Coniston. In addition we read about Anny's own inner life: her near-obsession with her father: William Makepeace Thackeray, her escape into writing, her startling marriage to her second cousin and her godson, and the story of her sister Minny's passionate marriage to Leslie Stephen. We also learn of Stephen's second wife, Julia Jackson, mother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Meticulously researched, this intimate story draws not only on a wealth of letters, journals, hitherto unpublished sketches and photographs, but also on family legends passed down to the author through four generations. Illuminating, comic and touching, Anny reads like a novel, presenting a unique portrait of the rich literary world that formed the bridge between the Victorians and Bloomsbury.


Book details

  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • English
  • 0712667776
  • 9780712667777

About Henrietta Garnett

henrietta garnett was Read More about Henrietta Garnett
ksh 700
Product available
Add to basket
Inquire on WhatsApp Buy as gift
Hurry Up!Only 2 items left
Sold & Delivered by Atticbooks

Get it by Today 05 AM - 6 PM (For orders within Nairobi only )
Free delivery above KES 20000

Condition : Used Book This is a used book. We do our best to provide good quality books for you to read, but there is no escaping the fact that it has been owned and read by someone else previously. Therefore it will show signs of wear and may be an ex library book

Email Twitter Instagram Facebook Whatsapp

People who bought this also bought