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A Book Of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen: Collection Of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition
A Book Of Sibyls Mrs Barbauld Miss Edgeworth Mrs Opie Miss Austen Collection Of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition Author:Anne Thackeray Ritchie 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... more » 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« less