Delphi Complete Works of Anne Thackeray Ritchie

by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Delphi Classics (Editor)

The eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie was a prominent figure of the late Victorian literary scene. She became a woman of letters in her own right and a much admired novelist in the 1860’s and 1870’s, while in later years she enjoyed the reputation of a superb writer of memoirs and literary essays. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Ritchie’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ritchie’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All 6 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including Ritchie’s mature masterpiece ‘Mrs. Dymond’
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare story collections available in no other collection
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Includes Ritchie’s rare non-fiction – available in no other collection
* Features the author’s memoir – discover Ritchie’s literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres



The Novels
The Story of Elizabeth (1863)
The Village on the Cliff (1867)
Old Kensington (1873)
Miss Angel (1875)
From an Island (1877)
Mrs. Dymond (1885)

The Shorter Fiction
To Esther, and Other Sketches (1869)
Bluebeard’s Keys, and Other Stories (1874)
Five Old Friends; And, A Young Prince (1875)
Miss Williamson’s Divagations (1881)

The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Non-Fiction
Toilers and Spinsters, and Other Essays (1874)
Madame de Sévigné (1881)
A Book of Sibyls (1883)
Introduction to ‘Vanity Fair’ (1897)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1900)
A Discourse on Modern Sibyls (1913)

The Memoir
Chapters from Some Memories (1894)

3572 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2021

About the author

Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, née Thackeray, was an English writer. She was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. She was the author of several novels which were highly regarded in their time, and a central figure in the late Victorian literary scene. She is perhaps best remembered today as the custodian of her father's literary legacy, and for her short fiction placing traditional fairy tale narratives in a Victorian milieu.

Anne Isabella Thackeray was born in London, the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray and his wife Isabella Gethin Shawe (1816–1893). She had two younger sisters: Jane, born in 1839, who died at eight months, and Harriet Marian (1840–1875), who married Leslie Stephen in 1869. Anne, whose father called her "Anny", spent her childhood in France and England.

She married her cousin Richmond Ritchie, seventeen years her junior, in 1877. The couple had two children, Hester and Billy.

She was the step-aunt of Virginia Woolf who penned an obituary for her in the Times Literary Supplement. She is believed to be the inspiration for the character of Mrs. Hilbery in Woolf's Night and Day.