Charlotte Brontë
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Standard Name: Brontë, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Brontë
Married Name: Mrs Arthur Bell Nicholls
Pseudonym: Currer Bell
Used Form: Charlotte Bronte
CB
's five novels, with their passionate explorations of the dilemmas facing nineteenth-century middle-class English women, have made her perhaps the most loved, imitated, resisted, and hotly debated novelist of the Victorian period.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen
, Maria Edgeworth
,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michèle Roberts | This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR
discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Among her subjects are Lady Byron
(an occasion for HM
to deplore Byron
's conduct and influence), Mary Berry
, Mary Russell Mitford
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Marcet
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Somerville |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jessie Fothergill | Referring to the novel as more powerful and far more original than Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, Shirley, or Villette, she berates those critics who insist too exclusively upon its gloom, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton. 13 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | |
Textual Production | Mary Stewart | The fourth novel by MS
, Nine Coaches Waiting, was a governess novel, which has drawn comparisons with Daphne du Maurier
's Rebecca and Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2961 (28 November 1958): 684 Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers. 19 |
Textual Production | Caroline Bowles | Southey had proposed the project in 1823. Bowles had great difficulty mastering its stanza form, which was based on that of his early poem Thalaba the Destroyer, 1801. There is little doubt he expressed... |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | ET
turned her attention from Jane Austen to Charlotte Brontë
with Adèle, Jane Eyre's Hidden Story, which retells the Jane-Rochester romance from the point of view of the watching child-pupil. “Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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 | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
received a letter from Patrick Brontë
asking her to write his daughter Charlotte
's biography. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 392, 656n9 |
Timeline
1917: John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird...
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1917
John Murray
(publishers of Isabella Bird
and later Freya Stark
) took over Smith, Elder
(publishers of Charlotte Brontë
, Charlotte Chanter
, and Queen Victoria
).
July 1923: Beatrice Kean Seymour's novel The Hopeful...
Women writers item
July 1923
Beatrice Kean Seymour
's novelThe Hopeful Journey set out to show how Charlotte Brontë
's novels influence a young woman's marriage.
1951: Beatrice Kean Seymour published The Second...
Women writers item
1951
Beatrice Kean Seymour
published The Second Mrs. Conford, which carries resonances with Brontë
's Jane Eyre.
1977: Elaine Showalter published A Literature of...
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1977
Elaine Showalter
published A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë
to Lessing, an important work in women's literary history.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
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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.
Summer 2005: News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction...
Women writers item
Summer 2005
News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year, Judith Kelly
's Rock Me Gently, included passages almost verbally identical with passages by other authors.
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