Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, was an English writer, whose several novels were highly regarded in their time and made her a central figure on the late Victorian literary scene. She is especially remembered as the custodian of her father's literary legacy, and for short fiction that places traditional fairy tale narratives in a Victorian milieu. Her 1885 novel Mrs. Dymond contains the earliest use in English of the proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for life."