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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Literary responses | Anne Marsh | It was presumably the lightning that made Charlotte Brontë
fear a charge of plagiarism when she read the tale following the publication of Jane Eyre. Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Editor Shelston, Alan, Penguin. 509 |
Literary responses | Lettice Cooper | Like Cooper's previous book, this too netted a flattering comparison to a nineteenth-century woman writer. Richard Church
in John O'London's likened it to Charlotte Brontë
's Villette. Cooper, Lettice. Fenny. Gollancz. inside dust-jacket |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Charlotte Brontë
wrote to CG
to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 129 |
Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent
, who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly... |
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... |
Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | This novel was reviewed for the Athenæum by Horace St John
, who placed FAKunmistakeably in the school of Currer Bell
, Athenæum. J. Lection. 1550 (1857): 881 |
Literary responses | Patricia Beer | Responses to PB
's poetry have varied widely, even among her fellow poets. Jeni Couzyn
has charged her with the crime of not rocking the boat, of making herself a favourite . . . for... |
Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Reviewers greeted this novel with praise, drawing parallels with Brontë
's Jane Eyre and Du Maurier
's Rebecca. Alex Stuart
in John O' London's noted its utterly compulsive, drug-like, addictive quality. Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert: "Queen of Romantic Suspense". http://members.tripod.com/jeanplaidy/index.htm. |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | H. F. Chorley
, the Athenæum reviewer, lauded it as an excellent story for young people, sound in morals and pleasant in incident,—with only one passing apparition of the Deus ex machina to disturb our... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | On 22 November 1848, Charlotte Brontë
wrote to William Smith Williams
(a friend of both herself and the author), I have read Madeleine. It is a fine pearl in simple setting. Julia Kavanagh has... |
Literary responses | Annie Tinsley | The story was thought, however, to derive from other books, both from Harriet Beecher Stowe
's Uncle Tom's Cabin and from Charlotte Brontë
's Villette. In an Advertisement to her next, anonymous novel, AT |
Literary responses | Anne Brontë | On 4 July 1846 two anonymous reviews of Poems by Currer
, Ellis
and Acton Bell
appeared, one mildly positive by Sydney Dobell
in the Athenæum, and one enthusiastic in the Critic. A... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The novel prompted a complimentary letter on 7 November 1849 from Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë
) saying that in it he tasted a new and keen pleasure, and experienced a genuine benefit. In his... |
Literary responses | Patricia Highsmith | Critic Bob Wake
discusses Highsmith's complex point-of-view techniques—a literary style begun by Henry James
—and her modelling The Talented Mr Ripley on his novel The Ambassadors (1903). He notes her humorous plays on the James... |
Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | The book was initially well-received. A reviewer for the mostly female-oriented Peterson's Magazine, for instance, declared that [o]n some of the deepest problems that agitate humanity [RHD
] has evidently thought much and... |
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