A Book of Sibyls

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-108-02124-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ritchie, Anne Thackeray

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Mrs. Barbauld [1743–1825]; 2. Maria Edgeworth [1769–1849]; 3. Mrs. Opie [1769–1853]; 4. Jane Austen [1775–1817].