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.
Etching of Charlotte Brontë after a portrait by George Richmond, 1850. She is seen from the waist up, seated, with one elbow resting on a table, that hand holding a small book and the other on her lap, holding a handkerchief. She wears a flat ribbon round her neck, and a dark dress, buttoned in front, with lace trim on the sleeves and bodice. Her dark, smooth hair is pulled back and tied with a dark ribbon.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Fay Weldon
FW 's career as a playwright was active and successful by the late 1960s, and she has written many one-act plays, as well as longer pieces. Her works for theatre include an adaptation from four...
Performance of text Clemence Dane
CD 's Wild Decembers, based on the lives of the BrontëEmily BrontëAnne BrontëBranwell Brontë family, had its first performance, at the Apollo Theatre , London.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
10: 133
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press.
100
Occupation Sydney Thompson Dobell
While best remembered for writing spasmodic poetry, STD also worked as a reviewer. In the Palladium and the Athenæum he gave positive reviews to works by Anne , Emily , and Charlotte Brontë .
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
745
Occupation Robert Southey
RS 's popular success as a poet and his position as Poet Laureate from 1813 caused aspiring authors to seek him out for advice. He famously advised Charlotte Brontë , [l]iterature cannot be the business...
Occupation Alice Meynell
As well as reading her own poetry, she lectured about the transition of English poetry from the seventeenth century to the eighteenth century, and on Charlotte Brontë and Dickens . She earned the lowly sum...
Occupation Mary Taylor
Though sad to see her friend emigrate, Charlotte Brontë understood Mary's motivation: Mary has made up her mind that she can not and will not be a governess, a teacher, a milliner, a bonnetmaker nor...
names Mary Taylor
Charlotte Brontë gave her these three nicknames.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press.
14
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Gaskell
Amidst scandal, and after months of revisions, EG published her third edition of The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
431, 443-4
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...
Literary responses Anne Brontë
The novel was reviewed immediately by The Spectator and the Athenæum. The former accused the author of a morbid love for the coarse, not to say the brutal, and objected to the coarseness of...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Most reviews of North and South were positive, athough some criticized EG for what they saw as inaccuracies in her portrayal of northern industrial life. Chorley in the Athenæum called this one of the best...
Literary responses Matilda Betham-Edwards
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane...
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
This novel was not as successful as JK 's earlier efforts. Charlotte Brontë confided to William Smith Williams , I have tried to read Daisy Burns; at the close of the 1st Vol. I...
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
She therefore concurred with her publisher's plan to reprint not this...

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