Memory and Legacy

A Thackeray Family Biography 1876-1919

AvJohn Aplin

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

This is a domestic biography of the Thackeray family, placing the writer in the context of his home life. The story continues long after his death, to trace the later lives of his two daughters, Anne Isabella and Harriet Marian, and their marriages. His elder daughter Annie, in particular, took responsibility for guarding and shaping her father's legacy. The source material is not Thackeray's books so much as his own more intimate papers - his letters - and the correspondence and journals of his mother and daughters. The book will appeal not just to those interested in Thackeray and the Victorians, but to the general reader of biography, to those interested in womenís studies, life writing and to followers of the family of Virginia Woolf.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-01-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:449 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lutterworth Press
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:James Clarke & Co Ltd
ISBN:9780718892258

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Formerly Head of the Department of Performing Arts at Brunel University, since 2001 John Aplin has pursued independent and extensive research on the Thackeray family. In 2006 he published A True Affection: Anne Thackeray Ritchie and the Tennysons. The Inheritance of Genius will be followed by a second volume Memory and Legacy, and both are due for publication in 2010 by The Lutterworth Press.

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There can be no doubt that both collections by Aplin will enhance scholar's understanding of Thackeray but their greatest contribution will be to researchers of Anne Thackeray Ritchie's life.Clare Horrocks: Journal of Victorian Culture, Vol. 17 (2), 2012."John Aplin has succeeded in resituating Thackeray the public author within a domestic, private history of daughters, cousins and generations. [...] Aplin writes well, balancing a sense of drama with a judicious use of evidence to make this family history compelling and readable."Judith L. Fisher, English Studies, 94:5, 620 - 622 14th July 2013John Aplin's incredibly detailed two-volume biography of the Thackeray family is another profoundly excellent addition to Thackeray studies.Years Work in English Studies, Vol. 92, No. 1, 2013John Aplin has succeeded in resituating Thackeray the public author within a domestic, private history of daughters, cousins and generations. [...] Aplin writes well, balancing a sense of drama with a judicious use of evidence to make this family history compelling and readable. Judith L. Fisher, English Studies, Vol. 94, No.5, August 2013

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations; Prelude and Acknowledgements; This Something Come into my Life (1875-1877); Shadows of the Past (1877-1881); After All a Lifetime (1882-1885); The Lights of the Hills (1886-1889); My Little Dream of an Edition (1890-1893); That History Has Lasted On (1894-1895); That Divided Life (1896-1899); The Continuance of Love (1900-1909); Such a Little Time for Me (1910-1914); The End of a Long Day's Work (1915-1919); Notes; Thackeray and Ritchie Family Tree; Abbreviations and Sources; Select; Bibliography; Index.