Blanche Warre-Cornish née Ritchie (widely known as Mrs Cornish, 5 July 1848 – 9 August 1922)[1] was an English writer and conversationalist, celebrated for the "pregnant and startling irrelevancies" of her discourse.
Warre-Cornish's published works included the novels Alcestis (1873) and Northam Cloisters (1882, sometimes misattributed to William Hamilton Maxwell).
[3] She also wrote a memoir of Robert Hugh Benson[4] and edited some biographical reminiscences of her cousin, William Thackeray.
A second edition was printed in Cairo by the Press of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in 1947 and reprinted in 1999 by Stone Trough Books.
Warre-Cornish once gave the following advice to an assistant: "In all disagreeable circumstances remember the three things which I always say to myself: 'I am an Englishwoman;' 'I was born in wedlock;' 'I am on dry land.