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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Performance of text | Clemence Dane | CD
's Wild Decembers, based on the lives of the BrontëEmily BrontëAnne BrontëBranwell Brontë
family, had its first performance, at the Apollo Theatre
, London. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 133 Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press. 100 |
Performance of text | Fay Weldon | FW
's career as a playwright was active and successful by the late 1960s, and she has written many one-act plays, as well as longer pieces. Her works for theatre include an adaptation from four... |
Occupation | Mary Taylor | Though sad to see her friend emigrate, Charlotte Brontë
understood Mary's motivation: Mary has made up her mind that she can not and will not be a governess, a teacher, a milliner, a bonnetmaker nor... |
Occupation | Sydney Thompson Dobell | |
Occupation | Robert Southey | RS
's popular success as a poet and his position as Poet Laureate from 1813 caused aspiring authors to seek him out for advice. He famously advised Charlotte Brontë
, [l]iterature cannot be the business... |
Occupation | Alice Meynell | As well as reading her own poetry, she lectured about the transition of English poetry from the seventeenth century to the eighteenth century, and on Charlotte Brontë
and Dickens
. She earned the lowly sum... |
names | Mary Taylor | Charlotte Brontë
gave her these three nicknames. Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press. 14 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Gaskell | Amidst scandal, and after months of revisions, EG
published her third edition of The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 431, 443-4 |
Literary Setting | Olive Schreiner | Cherry Clayton
believes the novel's fictional English setting, Greenwood, was influenced by the English landscapes in the works of Hardy
, George Eliot
, and the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë
. Schreiner herself had not yet been to... |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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