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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Literary responses | Annie Tinsley | The story was thought, however, to derive from other books, both from Harriet Beecher Stowe
's Uncle Tom's Cabin and from Charlotte Brontë
's Villette. In an Advertisement to her next, anonymous novel, AT |
Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | The Athenæum review by Lena Eden
professed itself disgusted not so much by Dr Jacob's hypocritical and despicable character as by his gall in presuming to set himself up as a hero at an age... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë
told Williams
that she read this work with gratification and found that Kavanagh's charity and (on the whole) her impartiality are very beautiful. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. III: 326 |
Literary responses | Jean Rhys | Later critics speak of the book as her masterpiece, and as a work of genius, praising its ground-breaking colonial and canonical critique. Coral Ann Howells
comments that Wide Sargasso Sea has not only taken up... |
Literary responses | Anne Brontë | After AB
's death, Charlotte
considered her sister's novelhardly . . . desirable to preserve and the subject matter an entire mistake. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 274 |
Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 213-28. 214 |
Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | Later reviewers have linked the confessional theme and High Church tendencies Parkes, Bessie Rayner. In a Walled Garden. Ward and Downey. 104 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | The young Virginia Stephen
(usually a reviewer hard to please) praised this book warmly: few living novelists are so genuinely gifted as Miss Robins, or can produce work to match hers for strength and sincerity... |
Literary responses | Emily Spender | The Athenæum reviewer, Almaric Rumsey
, guessed the novelist's gender from the use of the bigamy motif, which he felt to be obviously derivative from more talented novelists (Wilkie Collins
's recently published The... |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | Both Charlotte Brontë
and Charles Dickens
mentioned the appearance of this novel in their letters. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 12 |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | Although MB
was commended for the accuracy of her historical settings in her crime novels, Mary Jean deMarr
points out that she was also faulted for unbelievable reversals and obstrusive symbolism. However, deMarr finds her... |
Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | John Cordy Jeaffreson
paid this novel the compliment of a three-column Athenæum review. He predicted eventual success as a novelist for its author, even though he found grave faults in her present production. ABE
... |
Literary responses | Hesba Stretton | Calling the novel an offspring of a bold imagination, the Athenæum comments that it is written without labour or spurious ornament, and that certain scenes are very well described. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2046 (1867): 44 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | In a later generation Anna Letitia Barbauld
followed Hertford and Carter in celebrating ESR
her in poetry. Such different figures as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and Clara Reeve
endorsed her. She had a huge following... |
Literary responses | George Sand | Charlotte Brontë
, signing as C. Bell, expressed to G. H. Lewes
both praise and criticism for GS
: It is poetry, as I comprehend the word, which elevates that masculine George Sand, and... |
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