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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Textual Production | Angela Carter | She also wrote introductions to works by various writers and artists, including Walter De la Mare
, Christina Stead
, Gilbert Hernandez
, Frida Kahlo
, and Charlotte Brontë
. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press. 172-3 |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | An American edition appeared the same year. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Textual Production | May Sinclair | |
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 | Elizabeth Gaskell | Immediately after the death of her friend Charlotte Brontë
on 31 March 1855, EG
began gathering details of her life and death, and planning to write a book to make people honour the woman as... |
Textual Production | Willa Cather | In the 1920s WC
was working for a maximum of three hours a day, banishing her work from her mind during the rest of day, but keeping herself fresh for it. She said her only... |
Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
Textual Production | Emma Frances Brooke | It seems that EFB
began writing seriously for financial reasons after her sudden loss of fortune and her move south to Hampstead in London in 1879. Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press. 163 Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 2, pp. 153-68. 156-7 |
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. 246 |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | |
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 | Aldous Huxley | In 1943 AH
had a hand in writing the filmscript for Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | |
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. 19 |
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