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.
Anne
and CB
apparently experienced crises of faith around this time; Anne was also seriously ill.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
280-1, 284-5
death
John Oliver Hobbes
She had left her parents' home on the Isle of Wight the day before, having spent three energetic days there, and her father later wrote that on leaving she gave no indication of illness or...
Education
Flora Macdonald Mayor
Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she...
Education
Mary Gawthorpe
Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...
Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. Doubleday and Co. Inc., 1975.
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Dews, Carlos L., and Carson McCullers. “Chronology and Notes”. Complete Novels, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, 2001, pp. 807-27.
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Education
L. M. Montgomery
LMM
attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her...
Education
Jean Rhys
At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...
Education
Jean Plaidy
Eleanor Alice Burford (later JP
) learned how to read at four years old: I do feel that books were my thing, right from the word go, she told an interviewer in 1991.
qtd. in
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, 4 July 1991, pp. 23-4.
23
She...
Education
H. D.
HD's father encouraged her education, although he refused to allow her to attend art school. Instead, she was encouraged to study mathematics and was tutored by her brother Eric
. Eric also provided his sister...
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Drabble
MD
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, also attended Cambridge
, and served in the RAF
during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour
candidate for the Tory seat...
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Shorter worked for...
Family and Intimate relationships
Emily Brontë
Two of EB
's sisters, Maria
and Elizabeth
, died before she reached the age of seven. With Charlotte
, her elder by two years, and Anne
, her younger by eighteen months, Emily engaged...
Family and Intimate relationships
Emma Frances Brooke
It appears that EFB
had at least two sisters, and that they may have both been writers. An article written after EFB revealed her authorship of A Superfluous Woman quotes her still undiscovered biographer: There...
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...
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.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 225
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.
“Poetry Society News: News Archive”. The Poetry Society, London.
Texts
Brontë, Anne, and Emily Brontë. Agnes Grey. T. C. Newby, 1847, Volume 3 of 3.
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, 3 vols.