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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her... |
| Education | F. Tennyson Jesse | Though FTJ
did not receive much formal education, she read voraciously. Important discoveries were theBrontësisters
, Jane Austen
, and Constance Garnett
's translations of Tolstoy
. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 33 |
| Education | L. M. Montgomery | When her savings ran out, she left university and by the next year she was teaching again in Belmont, P.E.I. Among the influential books she read in the next few years were Olive Schreiner
's... |
| Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
fervently pursued more knowledge, and travelled to Edinburgh in early 1862, where she was tutored in various subjects. Here she became enamoured of Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre, appreciating the novel for its grand steadfastness and... |
| Education | Emily Brontë | A plan was formed that the sisters would open their own school to support themselves, and Charlotte
decided that she and Emily needed further education in order to distinguish themselves from their competitors. On 8... |
| Education | Margaret Forster | As a very small child MF
was noisy and demanding and given to tantrums. Forster, Margaret. Hidden Lives. Viking, 1995. 121-2 |
| Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
| Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she... |
| Education | Penelope Shuttle | Some sources say that PS
attended a secondary modern school in Staines (that is one with non-academic aims and expectations). But attendance at a private school is strongly implied by her poem about a girls'... |
| Education | H. D. | HD's father encouraged her education, although he refused to allow her to attend art school. Instead, she was encouraged to study mathematics and was tutored by her brother Eric
. Eric also provided his sister... |
| Education | Penelope Shuttle | At seventeen, she says (after the successive discoveries of Charlotte Brontë
, T. S. Eliot
and Emily Dickinson
), she began reading Rilke
. Everything opened up then, a whole new world of poetry for me. Mslexia. Mslexia Publications. 47 |
| Education | Carson McCullers | About this time she was reading voraciously: theBrontësisters
, Russian novelists and dramatists, and British and American modernists including Katherine Mansfield
and Gertrude Stein
. Isak Dinesen
was to come later. Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. Doubleday and Co. Inc., 1975. 33 Dews, Carlos L., and Carson McCullers. “Chronology and Notes”. Complete Novels, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, 2001, pp. 807-27. 808 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
was reportedly engaged for a time in the later 1850s, but the identity of her suitor is not known. Publisher George Smith
records having admired her. He said that Charlotte Brontë
, when they... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
named her daughter after Charlotte Brontë
's character. The child Shirley Catlin was already a Roman Catholic
, a role she later combined with that of social democrat. She came second to Elizabeth Taylor |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Brontë |
Timeline
1886: Eva Hope's Queens of Literature of the Victorian...
Women writers item
1886
Eva Hope
's Queens of Literature of the Victorian Era singled out Mary Somerville
, Harriet Martineau
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
, and Felicia Hemans
.
Hope, Eva. Queens of Literature of the Victorian Era. Walter Scott, 1886.
passim
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
).
Murray, John R. “Going Strong”. The Author, Vol.
cxi
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2000, pp. 182-4. 183
July 1923: Beatrice Kean Seymour's novel The Hopeful...
Women writers item
July 1923
Beatrice Kean Seymour
's novel The Hopeful Journey set out to show how Charlotte Brontë
's novels influence a young woman's marriage.
The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton.
64 (1923): 203-4
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977.
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.
“Poetry Society News: News Archive”. The Poetry Society, London.
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.
Leith, Sam. “Sounds familiar? When ’memories’ seem to spring from other literary sources”. Telegraph.co.uk, 6 Aug. 2005.
Texts
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