author
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
1837–1919
A sharp, warm Victorian voice, she wrote novels, essays, and fairy-tale-inflected stories while moving at the center of one of England’s great literary families. Her work blends wit, feeling, and a lively interest in women’s inner lives.
2 Audiobooks
A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen
by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Old Kensington
by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
About the author
Born in London in 1837, Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. She grew up in a literary world and became a writer in her own right, publishing novels and short fiction that were well regarded in the late Victorian period.
She is especially remembered for fiction that brings together everyday social life and the tone of fairy tale, as well as for biographical and memoir writing. Alongside her own books, she also helped preserve and shape her father’s literary legacy, which kept her closely tied to the wider story of Victorian literature.
After her marriage to Sir Richmond Ritchie, she became Lady Ritchie. She died in 1919, leaving behind a body of work that still interests readers for its intelligence, charm, and its thoughtful attention to women’s experience.