A Book of Sibyls

Anne Thackeray Ritchie was a writer and the daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Her novels appeared in the Cornhill Magazine, which her father had edited, and their success established her literary reputation. A Book of Sibyls examines four female writers: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Amelia Opie, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen.