Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Emily Brontë
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Standard Name: Brontë, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Brontë
Pseudonym: Ellis Bell
Used Form: Emily Bronte
Used Form: Two
Emily Brontë
collaborated with her siblings on a body of juvenilia, and by herself wrote a small number of poems and a single surviving novel. Wuthering Heights is established as one of the most original and disturbing novels of the mid-nineteenth century. Its compelling imagery, sophisticated narrative technique, and powerful, indeed violent, story—part ghost story, part romance, part anatomy of social hierarchies and cultural conflict—details the enmity between two families on the Yorkshire moors that erupts when a strange child is adopted into one of them, and which is only resolved in the subsequent generation.
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.
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Dora Sigerson
DS
's last publication, eight years after her death, was Ernest Benn
's printing of twenty-one of her poems as a pamphlet in its Augustan Books of Poetry series.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Other poets in this series included...
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Mary Augusta Ward
MAW
produced a series of introductions to the Haworth edition of works by Charlotte
, Emily
, and Anne Brontë
.
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.
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Anne Brontë
Although some of the collaboratively produced juvenilia of the Brontë children is still extant, none has survived that was individually authored by AB
.
Chitham, Edward. A Life of Anne Brontë. B. Blackwell.
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In their childhood play which developed into the fantasy worlds...
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Dora Carrington
She produced a pen-and-ink drawing for an edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
, but this was never used.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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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.
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During the 1930s she produced nine long novels, in which she tried to emulate her literary heroes (theBrontësEmily Brontë
, George Eliot
,...
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May Sinclair
MS
published The Three Brontës, a critical and interpretive essay assessing Charlotte
, Anne
, and Emily
as people and as artists.
Though she mentions such writers as Eliza Haywood
and Mary Davys
, she begins her detailed discussion with the 1790s (a time which twenty years on would be regarded as somewhat late in the history...
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Alice Meynell
Many of the essays reprinted here focus on women writers who were, to put it mildly, little known to the public in the 1940s. These included: Anna Seward
and Joanna Baillie
, as well as...
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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...
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Virginia Woolf
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.
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Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...
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Margaret Kennedy
Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues...
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Charlotte Brontë
The novel focuses on the Luddite riots in Yorkshire in the Napoleonic era. Shirley Keeldar, an heiress with a man's name who revels in her unconventionality (and who was, according to conversation Elizabeth Gaskell
had...
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Marghanita Laski
ML
defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source.
Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press.
