The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray

Ritchie, Anne Thackeray (1837–1919),
daughter of British Victorian novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, aunt to Virginia Woolf, and a significant author and editor in her own right. Best known for her biographical introductions to her father's works, she also wrote several ‘domestic novels’, numerous essays on her contemporaries, and two collections of modern fairy tales. Five Old Friends and a Young Prince of 1868 (published in America as Fairy Tales for Grown Folks) and Bluebeard's Keys (1874) are Märchen in Victorian dress for adult audiences. Ritchie's versions of classic tales including ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood’, ‘Cinderella’, and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ have been criticized as...

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