Gérin, Winifred. Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius. Clarendon Press, 1967.
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Education | Charlotte Brontë | She rose to the top of her class by the end of her first six months, and stayed there until her departure, as well as winning prizes in French. There she also met Mary Taylor |
Education | Mary Taylor | She was a pretty and an able student, often at the top of her class. Gérin, Winifred. Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius. Clarendon Press, 1967. 64 Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972. 10 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Brontë | |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Brontë | Ironically, this last piece, with a much-reprinted and similarly exaggerated and gossipy account in the Literary Gazette, prompted Ellen Nussey
to suggest that Gaskell should write a true account of the life in order... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Taylor | MT
met Charlotte Brontë
and Ellen Nussey
at Miss Wooler's
school; they became lifelong friends. Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972. 1, 9, 13 |
Health | Emily Brontë | In a letter to Ellen Nussey
, Charlotte described her sister's arduous duties there: Hard labour from six in the morning until near eleven at night. with only one half hour of exercise between—this is... |
Literary responses | Emily Brontë | Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson
published... |
Other Life Event | Charlotte Brontë | CB
declined a marriage proposal from the Reverend Henry Nussey
, the brother of her friend Ellen
. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 301 |
Textual Features | Mary Taylor | In essence, Miss Miles presents and evaluates four case studies of young middle-class women struggling to earn and enjoy a living. Sarah's Aunt Jane details the obstacles facing working women: There's no decent way fit... |
Textual Features | Mary Taylor | Originally intending to focus upon her subject's time in New Zealand, Stevens felt the need to contextualize MT
's position as an independent merchant in Wellington within the overall life of this spirited woman, and... |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | An American edition appeared the same year. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
gained her first experience of rail travel and a first, inspiring sight of the sea during a holiday at Bridlington, Yorkshire, on the east coast, with her friend Ellen Nussey
. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 315-16 |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
reluctantly set out to accompany Anne, whose health was failing rapidly, to Scarborough, together with Ellen Nussey
. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 581 |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
went from London to her friend Ellen Nussey
's in Yorkshire; from there she went on to Edinburgh to join her friends George Smith
and his sister Eliza
for a couple of days. |
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