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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Zoë Fairbairns | The anonymous Times Literary Supplement piece was mixed. Though it judged this first book predictable, it did insinuate a comparison to Brontë
's Jane Eyre, and commended the appealingly honest and perceptive treatment of... |
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 | 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. 5 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and... |
Education | Margaret Forster | As a very small child MF
was noisy and demanding and given to tantrums. Forster, Margaret. Hidden Lives. Viking. 121-2 |
Literary responses | Jessie Fothergill | The Spectator reviewer admitted to surprise at this novel, since whereas The First Violin and Probation were clever and interesting, it found little, if anything, in them to lead us to expect that their author... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jessie Fothergill | Referring to the novel as more powerful and far more original than Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, Shirley, or Villette, she berates those critics who insist too exclusively upon its gloom, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Frankau | 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... |
Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | Later reviewers have linked the confessional theme and High Church tendencies Parkes, Bessie Rayner. In a Walled Garden. Ward and Downey. 104 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton. 13 |
Travel | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
, wearied from a long year spent writing her biography of Charlotte Brontë
, arrived in Rome for a holiday; she returned there several times in the next few years. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 415-17 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
received a letter from Patrick Brontë
asking her to write his daughter Charlotte
's biography. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 392, 656n9 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | While researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë
, EG
was warned by Henry Chorley
that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 403 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
published (using her own name for the first time) her influential and exhaustively researched The Life of Charlotte Brontë; initial reviews were positive, but the possibility of a libel suit brewed. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 424, 426 |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | Announcement of the second edition of EG
's The Life of Charlotte Brontë produced a threat from Lady Scott
's solicitors of a libel suit unless the publishers
withdrew all mention of their client and publicly apologized. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 426-7 |
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