Anne Brontë
-
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.
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | EB
's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë
's Agnes Grey reappeared in a cheap, single volume with a heavily edited and annotated selection of poems and a biographical preface by Charlotte Brontë
. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 654-6 Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Wuthering Heights</span>; Extract from the Prefatory Note to ’Selections from Poems by Ellis Bell’”. Wuthering Heights, edited by Professor Ian Jack and Professor Ian Jack, Oxford University Press, pp. 359 - 65; 365. 365 |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bentley | PB
published her first of five critical texts about the lives and works of the threeBrontësisters
, The Brontës. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. TLS Archive (19 July 1947): 362 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research. 27 |
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 | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bentley | In 1949 PB
both arranged and introduced the six-volume Heather Edition of the Brontës' works, and supplied an introduction for an edition of Charlotte Brontë
's The Professor, which was published with poems and... |
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 | 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. 213 |
Textual Production | May Sinclair | |
Textual Features | George Eliot | This story is equally remarkable for the portraits of Mr Tryan (the Evangelical clergyman who not only converts Janet to his beliefs but succeeds in sparking her will to regeneration) and of Janet herself, but... |
Textual Features | Anthony Trollope | This novel is remarkable for its explicit depiction of wife abuse in a middle-class marriage. This was a difficult topic for Victorian fiction to tackle, and had seldom been touched since Anne Brontë
's The... |
Textual Features | Eudora Welty | The word regional, said Welty, is careless, condescending, and an outsider's term; it has no meaning for the insider who is doing the writing.Jane Austen
, theBrontësisters
, and the writers... |
Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 3 |
Residence | Anne Lister | |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë | |
Reception | Charlotte Maria Tucker | 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... |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.