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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Hill | This novel moves deeper into the spare but striking presentation of childhood cruelty and suffering. Edmund Hooper, whose mother is dead, lives alone with his father in a gloomy and lonely house on the outskirts... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Kavanagh | Scholars agree that JK
's Nathalie in turn influenced Brontë
's Villette, which was published three years later. Some note a particular resemblance between JK
's Nathalie and Brontë's Lucy Snowe. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Brontë | Critic Elizabeth Langland credits AB
's first novel as one of the first by a woman to tell a humble, domestic story and to discover the techniques by which it could win an audience. The... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | In this, an early example of the New Woman novel, the orphaned sisters, left poor by their father's extravagance, set out to support themselves by running their own firm; in the end, however, they get... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | EN
writes more of female sexuality in this novel than anywhere else, using images of imprisonment to express her sense of what it meant to be a woman in a world dominated by men. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 192 |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Charlotte Guest | Lady CG
enjoyed cultured activities like the theatre and the opera throughout her life. Reading Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
in December 1850 she thought it singular . . . written with force but coarseness, and not of... |
| 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 | Julia Kavanagh | This novel was not as successful as JK
's earlier efforts. Charlotte Brontë
confided to William Smith Williams
, I have tried to read Daisy Burns; at the close of the 1st Vol. I... |
| Literary responses | Anne Brontë | The novel was reviewed immediately by The Spectator and the Athenæum. The former accused the author of a morbid love for the coarse, not to say the brutal, and objected to the coarseness of... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë
told Williams
that she read this work with gratification and found that Kavanagh's charity and (on the whole) her impartiality are very beautiful. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. III: 326 |
| Literary responses | Jean Rhys | Later critics speak of the book as her masterpiece, and as a work of genius, praising its ground-breaking colonial and canonical critique. Coral Ann Howells
comments that Wide Sargasso Sea has not only taken up... |
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