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
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Family and Intimate relationships | Claire Keegan | CK
's mother used to talk about Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre, but she did not actually read the novel until she was in college. O’Hagan, Sean. “Claire Keegan: ’Short stories are limited. I’m cornered into writing what I can’”. The Guardian. |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Brontë | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Taylor | MT
's father, Joshua Taylor
, came from a wool-trading family based in the West Riding of Yorkshire; he often travelled to the Continent on business and was fluent in French and Italian. He... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Taylor | MT
's mother, Anne (Tickell) Taylor
, has been described as a cold, Calvinistic chapel-goer Murray, Janet Horowitz, and Mary Taylor. “Introduction”. Miss Miles; or, A Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxiv. viii Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press. 4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Brontë | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
was reportedly engaged for a time in the later 1850s, but the identity of her suitor is not known. Publisher George Smith
records having admired her. He said that Charlotte Brontë
, when they... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC
as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Sigerson | She had met him through Katharine Tynan, and they became engaged in September 1895 after a long courtship. Their loving marriage lasted the rest of Dora's life. They never had children. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 240 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Fictionalization | Eliza Lynn Linton | In 1878, ELL
wrote to a relative, True success comes only by hard work, great courage in self-correction, and the most earnest and intense determination to succeed, not thinking that every endeavour is already success... |
Fictionalization | Anne Lister | AL
, whose history and character were known across a wide district around her home, is said to have been the model for Captain Keeldar, the male aspect of the heroine in Charlotte Brontë
's Shirley, 1849. Birch, Dinah. “Grubbling”. London Review of Books, pp. 10-11. 11 |
Fictionalization | Anne Lister | It was in connection with her immediate or recent reputation that AL
was allegedly fictionalised both in Brontë
's Shirley and Rosa Kettle
's The Mistress of Langdale Hall, 1872. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Fictionalization | Emily Brontë | Charlotte
's Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, her prefaces to Wuthering Heights, and the selection of poems sought to defend her sisters' character and works from the charges of reviewers. She... |
Friends, Associates | Matthew Arnold | MA
was acquainted with Charlotte Brontë
and wrote a poem dedicated to her following her death. He also knew Rhoda Broughton
, Emily Davies
, and Harriet Martineau
. |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray |
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