A biography. Pp. xvi+310, 16 plates, full page family tree, bibliography, index; dust wrapper; bookplate on upper pastedown; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981. First edition. *Anne Ritchie was born in 1837 and died in 1919 at the age of 82. Her life linked the world of her father, William Makepeace Thackeray, and that of her niece, Virginia Woolf: her sister Minny Thackeray, was the first wife of Leslie Stephen. Herself a novelist, memorialist and literary critic, Anne Thackeray lived for some time in the Stephen household, and figures (as Mrs. Hilbery) in Virginia Woolf's early novel Night and Day. \b. Item #027643