Charlotte Brontë

CMT , whose works sold very well, was regarded as a major female author during the mid-Victorian period. She was incensed when in 1882 some one wrote a sketch of her life, and requested her...

In 1991, JP said of Mistress of Mellyn: This was the sort of book that I loved to write, because I had read so much of the BrontësCharlotte BrontëAnne Brontë , over and over again, and...

Understanding the difficulties of dealing in detail with Victorian religious perplexity, MAW herself placed the book in the tradition of religious or social propaganda shared by Froude 's The Nemesis of Faith, Newman

Not until after a larger selection of poems, heavily edited by Charlotte , was included along with the biographical preface in the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, did EB 's poetry begin to receive...

An anonymous reviewer of Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights in The Spectator for 18 December 1847 commented that the work of all three Charlotte BrontëEmily BrontëBrontë s suffered from injudicious selection of the theme and matter.

It appears that Miss Miles received very little critical response. As Juliet Barker recently noted, it sank without a trace, perhaps because its belated publication (more than forty years after it was begun) meant that...

For the rest of her life AL lived at fifteenth-century Shibden Hall.

Originally intending to focus upon her subject's time in New Zealand, Stevens felt the need to contextualize MT 's position as an independent merchant in Wellington within the overall life of this spirited woman, and...

The novel, like the much earlier Grasp Your Nettle, features an off-stage Brontë esque mad wife.

While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive in the eyes of some, the heroine here defies such a one-sided image. Leonard Woolf found Mary Jocelyn very reserved...

VH modifies the gothic here to explore the psychological strains felt by sexually-frustrated women. Marie Secor finds a Charlotte Brontë -ish quality introduced into Hunt's writing with this work. Secor also notes that its...

The plot of this novel is a version of a romance archetype: poor but deserving girl confounds all expectations by marrying up. Elizabeth Bennet is the quintessence of the witty and resourceful heroine who had...

Through this novel, VH reconfigures the conventional governess narrative through the character, perceptions, and experiences of her heroine, Amy Steevens. Though often compared to Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre for her intelligent self-reliance, Amy...

The word regional, said Welty, is careless, condescending, and an outsider's term; it has no meaning for the insider who is doing the writing.Jane Austen , theBrontësisters , and the writers...

AR 's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience became one of her most controversial and influential theories. Rejecting established definitions of lesbianism as pathology, she means to acknowledge the...