Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte made substantial revisions to EB 's poetry in this edition that included some previously unpublished work. Although she cast her editorial interventions as mere corrections, she made substantial changes, such as substituting one word...

CMT , whose works sold very well, was regarded as a major female author during the mid-Victorian period. She was incensed when in 1882 some one wrote a sketch of her life, and requested her...

The quality of EG 's fiction was recognised early by her contemporaries. George Eliot exempted her, along with Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Brontë , from the ranks of Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, noting...

Critics have drawn different conclusions from the perceived connection between JK 's life and her works. Katharine S. Macquoid noted in 1897 that Kavanagh never obtrudes her personality on the reader, though she lifts him...

The first critical edition of EG 's works, in 10 volumes, appeared in 2005 and 2006 edited by a distinguished team of scholars headed by Joanne Shattock . It includes previously unpublished materials including some...

Understanding the difficulties of dealing in detail with Victorian religious perplexity, MAW herself placed the book in the tradition of religious or social propaganda shared by Froude 's The Nemesis of Faith, Newman

For the rest of her life AL lived at fifteenth-century Shibden Hall.

The essay treats works by women writers, such as Anne Thackeray Ritchie 's The Village on the Cliff and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre and Villette, alongside works by men.

It presents, in a light and humorous tone, three models of writing women: Charlotte Brontë as a genius of the past, speaking from beyond the grave (or perhaps being fraudulently made to speak); a Victorian...

In a preface CC addresses criticism of her previous work, Paul Ferroll. She writes: The opinions of the Public are like Fate. An Author may loudly declare them unjust, but he does not alter...

Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, the revue explores many facets of a woman's life, from her dramas, her traumas, and her fiascos to her fainting spasms; / the ins-and-outs of her...

While Charlotte Brontë , MEC argues, swept the world away in the storm of her passion and George Eliotconquered it with the power of understanding, [Elizabeth] Gaskell forced it to weep for pity [and]...

In essence, Miss Miles presents and evaluates four case studies of young middle-class women struggling to earn and enjoy a living. Sarah's Aunt Jane details the obstacles facing working women: There's no decent way fit...

This is a novel of two generations, each part of which seems to contain a faint foreshadowing of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre. It traces the personal and family experience of Catherine Dorrington, who...

Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened...