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.
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Health | Margiad Evans | As a child of about three she had terrible nightmares about people (nuns) who were running away from something, on fire and dying. She had dreadful dreams again at about seventeen, and then a recurrent... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Cambridge | The Author's Introduction is followed by one hundred short poems divided into two sections, which variously treat the central themes of mortality, impermanence, or the saving grace of Christianity. The poems are predominantly but not... |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. T. Meade | The year must be one of the most emotionally eventful in the history of school stories. Hester gets off on the wrong foot with devil-may-care Annie Forest. (Annie's mother, too, is dead, having committed her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Stella Gibbons | SG
's characters are amusing caricatures of socialites, intellectuals, and rustics. Flora's city friend, the modern young widow Mrs Smiling, for instance, has a large collection of suitors and an even larger collection of brassières... |
Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | With this volume, says UAF
, I entered the different world of S. Martin's, Lancaster, and of France; and I was just beginning to have things to say about the condition of women... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | She goes on to quote Johnson
, Cowper
, Emerson
(with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
(a passage about communion... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In an interview of 1893, Helen C. Black
described RNC
as tall, slender, and erect with large blue-grey eyes with long lashes,soft dark hair, and a low, tuneful voice. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren, 1906. 147-8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | This novel is influenced by Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, and like much of DMC
's fiction it makes frequent allusion to a wide range of romantic and Victorian poets. Like Jane Eyre, its... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | Mirror Talk asks: Is that my mother now behind the glass, looking / dark-eyed and weary, as if doubting / whether I can be trusted to count pills . . . . Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet, 2017. 5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bentley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Sinclair | MS
's The Three Sisters appeared: a psychological/psychoanalytical novel which, although the sisters in question are not the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë
, seems to take its setting from that of their lives. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. 108, 225-6 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | As a child SW
loved writing poems and stories, all entirely derivative from her reading of popular books like the Dr Who novelizations. In the sixth form at school she began to find the study... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Brontë | Critic Elizabeth Langland credits AB
's first novel as one of the first by a woman to tell a humble, domestic story and to discover the techniques by which it could win an audience. The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa May Alcott | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | SW
puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting... |
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