Charlotte Brontë
-
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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Education | Malorie Blackman | MB
was shaped by her reading outside school. She never entered a bookshop until she was fourteen, but relied on libraries. Early favourites were C. S. Lewis
's Narnia books, Johanna Spyri
's Heidi books... |
Education | Jackie Kay | In her early years at school in Glasgow, JK
had problems with bullies who taunted her because of her skin colour. She retaliated privately by writing little poems of revenge. “Writer’s ’revenge’ on school bullies”. BBC News. |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and... |
Education | Kate Clanchy | As a child KC
loved Victorian stories for girls—Frances Hodgson Burnett
's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
(or Susan Coolidge)'s What Katy Did, and Louisa May Alcott |
Education | Alice Meynell | In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . .... |
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. 33 |
Education | Emilie Barrington | William Rathbone Greg
, a friend of EB
's father (and according to Martha Westwater
the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë
's Rochester), tutored all six Wilson sisters, paying attention in his teaching to the subject... |
Education | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Her family's financial troubles prevented EJP
from receiving a formal or thorough education. In her own words, education was not within the reach of the gently born who were also poor, therefore I had little... |
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 | Jean Plaidy | Eleanor Alice Burford (later JP
) learned how to read at four years old: I do feel that books were my thing, right from the word go, she told an interviewer in 1991. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
Cultural formation | Emily Brontë | EB
was influentially represented by her sister Charlotte
, in her biographical preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, as living apart from the world, a homebody who was not naturally gregarious and... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Martineau | In a letter to Charlotte Brontë
, HM
expressed her views thus: I cannot conceive the absence of a First Cause; but then I contend that it is not a person, i. e. that it... |
Anthologization | Helen Dunmore | In 2016 HD
contributed Grace Poole: Her Testimony to a volume of stories in honour of Charlotte Brontë
entitled Reader, I Married Him, and edited by Tracy Chevalier
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.