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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Phyllis Bentley | In 1949 PB
both arranged and introduced the six-volume Heather Edition of the Brontës' works, and supplied an introduction for an edition of Charlotte Brontë
's The Professor, which was published with poems and... |
| Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane... |
| Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | The Athenæum review by Lena Eden
professed itself disgusted not so much by Dr Jacob's hypocritical and despicable character as by his gall in presuming to set himself up as a hero at an age... |
| Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
| Education | Malorie Blackman | MB
was shaped by her reading outside school. She never entered a bookshop until she was fourteen, but relied on libraries. Early favourites were C. S. Lewis
's Narnia books, Johanna Spyri
's Heidi books... |
| Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | Although MB
was commended for the accuracy of her historical settings in her crime novels, Mary Jean deMarr
points out that she was also faulted for unbelievable reversals and obstrusive symbolism. However, deMarr finds her... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Bridge | At about twelve Mary Anne Sanders (later AB
) was meeting eminent scholars at dinner, because her businessman father, who had to leave the house early in the morning, insisted against convention on even his... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
named her daughter after Charlotte Brontë
's character. The child Shirley Catlin was already a Roman Catholic
, a role she later combined with that of social democrat. She came second to Elizabeth Taylor |
| Publishing | Anne Brontë | After AB
's death, Agnes Grey was reprinted with Wuthering Heights, some of the sisters
' poetry, and a biographical preface by Charlotte
, who considered this novel more suitable than The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 654-6 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. 365 Brontë, Anne, and Charles William Hatfield. The Complete Poems of Anne Brontë. Editor Shorter, Clement, Hodder and Stoughton. ix Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 594 |
| Cultural formation | Emily Brontë | EB
was influentially represented by her sister Charlotte
, in her biographical preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, as living apart from the world, a homebody who was not naturally gregarious and... |
| Publishing | Anne Brontë | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Brontë | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Brontë | |
| Leisure and Society | Emily Brontë | During childhood and early adulthood the Brontë siblings produced elaborate fantasy worlds, which they acted out as plays, in part with toy figures. These worlds came to have individualized personae, geographies, and histories, which... |
Timeline
1917: John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird...
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1917
John Murray
(publishers of Isabella Bird
and later Freya Stark
) took over Smith, Elder
(publishers of Charlotte Brontë
, Charlotte Chanter
, and Queen Victoria
).
July 1923: Beatrice Kean Seymour's novel The Hopeful...
Women writers item
July 1923
Beatrice Kean Seymour
's novelThe Hopeful Journey set out to show how Charlotte Brontë
's novels influence a young woman's marriage.
1951: Beatrice Kean Seymour published The Second...
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1951
Beatrice Kean Seymour
published The Second Mrs. Conford, which carries resonances with Brontë
's Jane Eyre.
1977: Elaine Showalter published A Literature of...
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1977
Elaine Showalter
published A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë
to Lessing, an important work in women's literary history.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
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10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.
Summer 2005: News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction...
Women writers item
Summer 2005
News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year, Judith Kelly
's Rock Me Gently, included passages almost verbally identical with passages by other authors.
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