Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Constantin Heger
Standard Name: Heger, Constantin
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Brontë | CB
's pedagogical relationship with the married Constantin Heger
was most intense, though not necessarily adulterous. |
| Instructor | Charlotte Brontë | The composition instruction of the demanding master of rhetoric, Monsieur Constantin Heger
, had a particularly strong impact on CB
's writing. They took lessons in French and German. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 384ff, 404 |
| Instructor | Emily Brontë | A plan was formed that the sisters would open their own school to support themselves, and Charlotte
decided that she and Emily needed further education in order to distinguish themselves from their competitors. On 8... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | MR
claims to have been astonished when she found she had written a bloody corpse in the opening chapter again! Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith, Jenny Newman, and Pat Wheeler, Arnold, 2004, pp. 119 - 34. 123 |
| Literary responses | May Sinclair | MS
sent a copy of this work to Ernest Dimnet
, who had written Les Soeurs Brontë. In a letter of 19 July, he sent thanks for the book and also spoke in defence... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Charlotte Brontë | CB
's stay in Brussels (as well as contributing eventually to Villette) produced a number of French exercises or devoirs, plus her subsequent letters to Constantin Heger
. Four of the letters (of which... |
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