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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. At the book's heart are two interwoven stories. The first is Anny's near-obsession with her father, Thackeray, and her startling marriage to a man who was not only eighteen years her junior, but was her second-cousin, and even her godson (they fell in love when he was still at school). The second, tragic strand is the tale of her sister Minny's passionate marriage to Leslie Stephen, the craggy, moody, mountain-climbing father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. The book also, inevitably, paints the world of Anny's intricate web of relations and friends - children's parties with the Dickens family, chaotic holidays with Julia Margaret Cameron and the Tennysons on the Isle of Wight, a dash to help a spinster aunt stuck in Paris during the siege of 1870, intimate scenes with Browning in Rome and Ruskin

Author

HENRIETTA GARNETT

Publisher

London: Chatto & Windus

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780701171292

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography