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Ritchie, Mrs. Anne Isabella (Thackeray)
(b. 1837) Novelist, etc. The Story of Elizabeth (1863), The Village on the Cliff (1865), To Esther ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
(1800?-1865)
Novelist, b. at Greenock and in business as a clerk in Glasgow, but about 1820 adopted literature as his profession. He wrote several novels of which the best known is Wearyfoot Common; others were The Robber of the Rhine and The Magician. In his later years he ed. Chambers's Journal.
(b. 1837) Novelist, etc. The Story of Elizabeth (1863), The Village on the Cliff (1865), To Esther ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin