Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection.
McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. ix - xv.
x
Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Waters
SW
puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting...
Textual Production
Mary Augusta Ward
MAW
produced a series of introductions to the Haworth edition of works by Charlotte
, Emily
, and Anne Brontë
.
CMT
, whose works sold very well, was regarded as a major female author during the mid-Victorian period. She was incensed when in 1882 some one wrote a sketch of her life, and requested her...
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 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...
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...
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
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
MS
published The Three Brontës, a critical and interpretive essay assessing Charlotte
, Anne
, and Emily
as people and as artists.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Shorter worked for...
Timeline
1840: Thomas Cautley Newby established himself...
Writing climate item
1840
Thomas Cautley Newby
established himself as a publisher in London; he earned notoriety for failing to honour contracts, especially with new writers.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
Writing climate item
10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.
Texts
Brontë, Anne, and Emily Brontë. Agnes Grey. T. C. Newby, 1847.
Brontë, Charlotte et al. Poems. Aylott and Jones, 1846.
Brontë, Anne, and Charles William Hatfield. The Complete Poems of Anne Brontë. Editor Shorter, Clement, Hodder and Stoughton, 1921.
Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. T. C. Newby, 1848.
Brontë, Anne, and Winifred Gérin. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Editor Hargreaves, Geoffrey Duncan, Penguin, 1979.
Brontë, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Wuthering Heights. T. C. Newby, 1847.
