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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Education | Jean Plaidy | Eleanor Alice Burford (later JP
) learned how to read at four years old: I do feel that books were my thing, right from the word go, she told an interviewer in 1991. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
| Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | A. Mary F. Robinson | It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion... |
| Literary Setting | Olive Schreiner | Cherry Clayton
believes the novel's fictional English setting, Greenwood, was influenced by the English landscapes in the works of Hardy
, George Eliot
, and the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë
. Schreiner herself had not yet been to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Sigerson | She had met him through Katharine Tynan, and they became engaged in September 1895 after a long courtship. Their loving marriage lasted the rest of Dora's life. They never had children. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 240 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | May Sinclair | MS
's The Three Sisters appeared: a psychological/psychoanalytical novel which, although the sisters in question are not the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë
, seems to take its setting from that of their lives. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 108, 225-6 |
| Textual Production | May Sinclair | The first of MS
's introductions to the Everyman's Library reprints of the BrontëAnne BrontëEmily Brontë
sisters' novels, the one to Wuthering Heights, was published. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 213 |
| Textual Production | May Sinclair | |
| Publishing | Muriel Spark | Spark's first Brontë project was a group biography of the whole family, including the parents. In June 1949 she felt like a pregnant tigress with this work. It was to be published by Lindsay Drummond |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Spark | She took her text from the multi-volume Wise and Symington edition. The year before this, in a time of many uncompleted projects, she began on but did not finish a life of Anne Brontë
... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | ET
turned the circumstances of her own life to good account in this fiction. Her heroine, Julia Davenant, is married to an RAF officer, has a baby son, and is living in the absent Mrs... |
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