Anne Brontë
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Standard Name: Brontë, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Brontë
Pseudonym: Acton Bell
Used Form: Anne Bronte
The youngest of the famous Brontë sisters, AB
has had the slightest reputation among the three for her output of poetry and two novels. Recently, however, her fiction's importance and influence has begun to be recognized, particularly for its incisive and detailed portrayal of the oppression of middle-class Victorian women.
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | Emily
, Anne
, and CB
published a collection, Poems, under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The pseudonym of Currer Bell may have been based on the name of Miss Currer
of... |
Textual Production | Flora Thompson | In 1923 The Catholic Fireside launched FT
's column entitled the Fireside Reading Circle. As well as competitions for readers, with her critiques on their efforts, it included her own essays on literary topics... |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | Charlotte Brontë
discovered a book of EB
's manuscript poetry and was convinced that she should publish it; this led to their first, joint publication (with Anne
) of their Poems. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 478-9 |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | Oliphant's contribution was The Sisters BrontëEmily BrontëAnne Brontë, a sharply perceived and proto-feminist analysis. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 343 |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | The publishers
of Jane Eyre bought up the remaining copies of Poems by Currer
, Ellis
, and Acton
Bell and reissued it. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 9, 64 |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
Textual Production | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Textual Features | Eudora Welty | The word regional, said Welty, is careless, condescending, and an outsider's term; it has no meaning for the insider who is doing the writing.Jane Austen
, theBrontësisters
, and the writers... |
Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 3 |
Textual Features | Anthony Trollope | This novel is remarkable for its explicit depiction of wife abuse in a middle-class marriage. This was a difficult topic for Victorian fiction to tackle, and had seldom been touched since Anne Brontë
's The... |
Textual Features | George Eliot | This story is equally remarkable for the portraits of Mr Tryan (the Evangelical clergyman who not only converts Janet to his beliefs but succeeds in sparking her will to regeneration) and of Janet herself, but... |
Residence | Anne Lister | |
Reception | Jean Plaidy | In 1991, JP
said of Mistress of Mellyn: This was the sort of book that I loved to write, because I had read so much of the BrontësCharlotte BrontëAnne Brontë
, over and over again, and... |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë |
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