Charlotte Brontë
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Standard Name: Brontë, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Brontë
Married Name: Mrs Arthur Bell Nicholls
Pseudonym: Currer Bell
Used Form: Charlotte Bronte
CB
's five novels, with their passionate explorations of the dilemmas facing nineteenth-century middle-class English women, have made her perhaps the most loved, imitated, resisted, and hotly debated novelist of the Victorian period.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | Mirror Talk asks: Is that my mother now behind the glass, looking / dark-eyed and weary, as if doubting / whether I can be trusted to count pills . . . . Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet. 5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | The title story uses mud or muddy almost thirty times. MR
writes, as always, as a feminist; these stories occupy a borderline between the self-making of women and their appropriation into patriarchal stories. She enjoys... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Mary Moore | The title-page quotes from Shakespeare
(What's past is Prologue) and Cicero
(That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co. prelims |
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 et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34. 123 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Shuttle | The first book that affected PS
deeply was Brontë
's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8. 48 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Kavanagh | Two years before Nathalie appeared, JK
had told Charlotte Brontë
that Jane Eyrehad been to her a suggestive book. Reporting this, Brontë added, and I know that suggestive books are valuable to authors. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. II: 182 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Hill | This novel moves deeper into the spare but striking presentation of childhood cruelty and suffering. Edmund Hooper, whose mother is dead, lives alone with his father in a gloomy and lonely house on the outskirts... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bentley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Brontë | Critic Elizabeth Langland credits AB
's first novel as one of the first by a woman to tell a humble, domestic story and to discover the techniques by which it could win an audience. The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | In this, an early example of the New Woman novel, the orphaned sisters, left poor by their father's extravagance, set out to support themselves by running their own firm; in the end, however, they get... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | EN
writes more of female sexuality in this novel than anywhere else, using images of imprisonment to express her sense of what it meant to be a woman in a world dominated by men. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 192 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Kavanagh | Scholars agree that JK
's Nathalie in turn influenced Brontë
's Villette, which was published three years later. Some note a particular resemblance between JK
's Nathalie and Brontë's Lucy Snowe. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Jane Worboise | Each chapter begins with a religious epigraph. This novel recounts the story of the attractive nineteen-year-old bride, Lilian Grey, who makes a marriage above her social class with the aristocratic Basil Hope. Worboise, Emma Jane. The Wife’s Trials; Married Life; Husbands and Wives. Garland. Wife's Trials: 1-3, 9 |
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