Charlotte Brontë

This novel was reviewed for the Athenæum by Horace St John , who placed FAKunmistakeably in the school of Currer Bell , and somewhat heartlessly maintained that the sister heroines, in...

Responses to PB 's poetry have varied widely, even among her fellow poets. Jeni Couzyn has charged her with the crime of not rocking the boat, of making herself a favourite . . . for...

Reviewers greeted this novel with praise, drawing parallels with Brontë 's Jane Eyre and Du Maurier 's Rebecca. Alex Stuart in John O' London's noted its utterly compulsive, drug-like, addictive quality. Twenty years...

H. F. Chorley , the Athenæum reviewer, lauded it as an excellent story for young people, sound in morals and pleasant in incident,—with only one passing apparition of the Deus ex machina to disturb our...

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...

Amidst scandal, and after months of revisions, EG published her third edition of The Life of Charlotte Brontë.

Charlotte Brontë gave her these three nicknames.

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

CD 's Wild Decembers, based on the lives of the BrontëEmily BrontëAnne BrontëBranwell Brontë family, had its first performance, at the Apollo Theatre , London.

The first of EG 's plays to be professionally staged, TheBrontësofHaworth, opened at the Charta Theatre in London.

Phyllis Bentley was a prolific and successful novelist, literary critic, short-story writer, children's writer, and journalist, who was productive over a broad span of the twentieth century. Almost all her twenty-eight novels and numerous short...