Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (born 9 July 1837 in London; died 1919) was an English writer.

Anne Isabella was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. She spent her childhood in France and, in 1863, published The story of Elizabeth with immediate success.

Several works followed:

• To Esther, and other sketches (1869)
• The Village on the Cliff
• Old Kensington
• Tailors and spinsters, and other essays
• Bluebeard's keys, and other stories
• Five Old Friends

In other writings, she peculiarly used old folk stories to depict modern situations and occurrences, such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood.

She married her cousin Richmond Ritchie in 1877.

She also published the following novels:

• Miss Angel (1875)
• Miss Wiuiainson's divagations (1881)
• Mrs. Dymond (1885)
• A book of sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Mrs. Opie, Miss EdgeWorth, Miss Austen(1883)
• the biography Madame de Sévigné (1881)

References

• Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher. Forbidden Journeys. ISBN 0226032043. 
• Ann Martin. Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed: Modernism's Fairy Tales. ISBN 0802090869. 

Further reading

• Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie. Chapters from Some Memoirs. ISBN 0543920984. 
• "Introduction" by Anne Thackeray Ritchie in Our Village, fully and openly available online in the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection

External links

• Archival material relating to Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie listed at the UK National Register of Archives