Charlotte 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...

In this, an early example of the New Woman novel, the orphaned sisters, left poor by their father's extravagance, set out to support themselves by running their own firm; in the end, however, they get...

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...

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...

Exploiting the style of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre, BC published a novel entitled The Poor Governess.

In the first section of the poem, the lord of Normiton Hall, Albert, is inspired to wed. His first choice is Maud, a woman who shares his philosophical interests. She declines however, since her faith...

Her critique of the Victorian family may have been inspired by Caroline Helstone's plight in Charlotte Brontë 's Shirley.FN writes that [d]aughters are their mothers' slaves . . . they are considered...

JR 's Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre; it presents a significantly different perspective on the characters met in Brontë 's novel. The character Jane Eyre never appears at all, and...

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.

CGOB left unpublished a number of personal writings. They include an essay on the cage birds she kept, written in 1886, and several vehement Brontësque outpourings about her deafness and other troubles.

This tie broadens the social scope of the novel. Karl is Jewish but not an observant Jew. He wishes he could believe in Christianity for its redeeming message and wants to extend that choice to...

EOB has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen , Emily Dickinson , Elizabeth Bowen , Anna Akhmatova , Anita Brookner , and Margaret Atwood , adding: Every...

Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue and first-person narration as Jane attempts...

Critics have pointed to a range of influences and allusions in this novel. Kate Flint has suggested that the representation of the sorrowful-eyed aesthete Francis Chaloner was a satiric jab at Oscar Wilde , who...

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...