Moral Conflicts and Religious Beliefs

Abstract

(1) ‘Thackeray and his Father’s Family’, Cornhill Magazine, n.s., xxxi (1911) 80–2; (2) from ‘An Impression of Thackeray in his Last Years’, Dublin Review, cl (1912) 12–26. Mrs Warre Cornish was a daughter of Thackeray’s cousin William Ritchie (1817–62), of whom he was very fond. Ritchie made his career in India, from 1842, but the children returned to Europe for their education, and thus Blanche, living sometimes with members of the family in Paris, saw Thackeray there and in London. The first item was the Introduction to her collection Some Family Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). The special concern with religion in the second item was appropriate to its appearing in a Catholic intellectual journal.