Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anne Brontë
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Standard Name: Brontë, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Brontë
Pseudonym: Acton Bell
Used Form: Anne Bronte
The youngest of the famous Brontë sisters, AB
has had the slightest reputation among the three for her output of poetry and two novels. Recently, however, her fiction's importance and influence has begun to be recognized, particularly for its incisive and detailed portrayal of the oppression of middle-class Victorian women.
CB
returned to Filey, near Scarborough, to try to improve her health and to visit Anne
's grave.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Travel
Emily Brontë
From this time EB
stayed close to home, apart from a brief trip that she and Anne
made to York in June 1845. During the journey she and Anne pretended they were Royalist prisoners fleeing...
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Muriel Spark
She took her text from the multi-volume Wise and Symington edition. The year before this, in a time of many uncompleted projects, she began on but did not finish a life of Anne Brontë
...
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Virginia Woolf
The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection.
McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. ix - xv.
x
Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...
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A. Mary F. Robinson
It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion...
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.
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Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
12
, No. 2, pp. 153-68.
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She officially adopted authorship as her profession...
Textual Production
May Sinclair
The first of MS
's introductions to the Everyman's Library reprints of the BrontëAnne BrontëEmily Brontë
sisters' novels, the one to Wuthering Heights, was published.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Textual Production
May Sinclair
MS
published The Three Brontës, a critical and interpretive essay assessing Charlotte
, Anne
, and Emily
as people and as artists.
CB
had begun creating plays with her siblings: both secret Bed plays produced under the covers with Emily
in their shared bed, and daytime plays involving Branwell
and Anne
as well.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Textual Production
E. M. Delafield
In the same year, EMD
edited the book of literary criticism, The BrontëCharlotte BrontëEmily Brontë
s: Their Lives Recorded by Their Contemporaries, published by Hogarth Press
.
Zarin, Cynthia. “The Diarist: How E. M. Delafield Launched a Genre”. New Yorker, pp. 44-9.
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Charlotte Brontë
Emily
, Anne
, and CB
published a collection, Poems, under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
The pseudonym of Currer Bell may have been based on the name of Miss Currer
of...
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Flora Thompson
In 1923 The Catholic Fireside launched FT
's column entitled the Fireside Reading Circle. As well as competitions for readers, with her critiques on their efforts, it included her own essays on literary topics...
Textual Production
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
discovered a book of EB
's manuscript poetry and was convinced that she should publish it; this led to their first, joint publication (with Anne
) of their Poems.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Textual Production
Emily Brontë
The Brontë sisters, Charlotte
, Anne
, and Emily
, received copies of their first publication: a collection of Poems published at their expense under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
Bell was the...
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Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant's contribution was The Sisters BrontëEmily BrontëAnne Brontë, a sharply perceived and proto-feminist analysis.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Timeline
1840: Thomas Cautley Newby established himself...
Writing climate item
1840
Thomas Cautley Newby
established himself as a publisher in London; he earned notoriety for failing to honour contracts, especially with new writers.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
Writing climate item
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.
Texts
Brontë, Anne, and Emily Brontë. Agnes Grey. T. C. Newby, 1847.
Brontë, Charlotte et al. Poems. Aylott and Jones, 1846.
Brontë, Anne, and Charles William Hatfield. The Complete Poems of Anne Brontë. Editor Shorter, Clement, Hodder and Stoughton, 1921.
Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. T. C. Newby, 1848.
Brontë, Anne, and Winifred Gérin. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Editor Hargreaves, Geoffrey Duncan, Penguin, 1979.
Brontë, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Wuthering Heights. T. C. Newby, 1847.
