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'In her father's steps she trod': Anne Thackeray Ritchie imagining Paris.

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20060101
Author:Jay, Elisabeth

Anny Thackeray's The Story of Elizabeth (1863) was written in the interstices of transcribing her father's last novel, and won instant acclaim for its 'freshness' when it followed William Makepeace Thackeray's The Adventures of Philip, in the Cornhill. A plot that challenges the Gothicized account of the Franco-English, Catholic--Protestant encounter given in Charlotte Bronte's Villette also carries as a subtext Anne's anxiety that by daring to enter the public domain she risks encountering the spectre of her father, the English flaneur whose urbane cynicism stemmed from having ...

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