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.
Etching of Charlotte Brontë after a portrait by George Richmond, 1850. She is seen from the waist up, seated, with one elbow resting on a table, that hand holding a small book and the other on her lap, holding a handkerchief. She wears a flat ribbon round her neck, and a dark dress, buttoned in front, with lace trim on the sleeves and bodice. Her dark, smooth hair is pulled back and tied with a dark ribbon.

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Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
ER 's novel White Violets, or, Great Powers, which she wrote in 1909 (just after the first unexpurgated appearance of Elizabeth Gaskell 's life of Charlotte Brontë ), remained unpublished, for reasons that are...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Emily Brontë
The Brontë sisters, Charlotte , Anne , and Emily , received copies of their first publication: a collection of Poems published at their expense under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
Bell was the...
Textual Production Mary Stewart
The fourth novel by MS , Nine Coaches Waiting, was a governess novel, which has drawn comparisons with Daphne du Maurier 's Rebecca and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2961 (28 November 1958): 684
Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers.
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Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant's contribution was The Sisters BrontëEmily BrontëAnne Brontë, a sharply perceived and proto-feminist analysis.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Textual Production Caroline Bowles
Southey had proposed the project in 1823. Bowles had great difficulty mastering its stanza form, which was based on that of his early poem Thalaba the Destroyer, 1801. There is little doubt he expressed...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
By 1912 VW had published on Margaret Cavendish (as Duchess of Newcastle), Ann, Lady Fanshawe , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Seward , Elizabeth, Lady Holland , Maria Edgeworth , Lady Hester Stanhope , theBrontë
Textual Production Emily Brontë
The publishers of Jane Eyre bought up the remaining copies of Poems by Currer , Ellis , and Acton Bell and reissued it.
Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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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.
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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.
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Textual Production Patricia Beer
PB 's Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , Elizabeth Gaskell , and George Eliot was a harbinger of serious critical interest in the women's literary tradition.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Emma Jane Worboise
EJW published her purified and evangelicalized reworking of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre under the title Thornycroft Hall: Its Owners and its Heirs.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1940 (1864): 893
Jay, Elisabeth. The Religion of the Heart: Anglican Evangelicalism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Clarendon Press.
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Textual Production Emily Brontë
EB 's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey reappeared in a cheap, single volume with a heavily edited and annotated selection of poems and a biographical preface by Charlotte Brontë .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Wuthering Heights</span>; Extract from the Prefatory Note to ’Selections from Poems by Ellis Bell’”. Wuthering Heights, edited by Professor Ian Jack and Professor Ian Jack, Oxford University Press, pp. 359 - 65; 365.
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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.
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Textual Production Rumer Godden
Years before, Rumer had hoped they might be the new Brontësisters .
Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books.
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