Charlotte Brontë

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. Carey revealed in this...

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...

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 . . . . But not...

PB was deeply influenced by the Brontës , whose home at Haworth was close to where she herself grew up in Halifax. As a daydreaming child she strongly identified with the Brontës ' imaginary worlds...

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.

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...

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...

LMA began writing while she was very young. At the age of ten she began a journal which was soon afterwards read and commented on by her mother . She was also a regular contributor...

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...