Anny : a biography of Anny Thackeray Ritchie / Henrietta Garnett
2004, First Edition. London : Chatto & Windus. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages; Physical description: xi, 322 p. : ; 24 cm. Subjects: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919. Women authors, English - 19th century - Biography. Summary: This is an enchanting and wonderfully evocative memoir of Anny Thackeray, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair, aunt of Virginia Woolf (who used her as the model for Mrs Hilberry in Night and Day). Anny was a writer herself and her novels and memoirs were much praised, but she was even more dearly loved for her eccentric, astoundingly muddled ways and her enormous sympathy for others. Item #189958
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