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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Bridge | At about twelve Mary Anne Sanders (later AB
) was meeting eminent scholars at dinner, because her businessman father, who had to leave the house early in the morning, insisted against convention on even his... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | Much feminist interest in the novel has centered on the relationship between Felix and Esther Lyon and the novel's treatment of the relationship between women and the public sphere. The book is in many ways... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | Charlotte Brontë
's poem We wove a web in childhood appears as epigraph, along with a sentence from Coleridge
about the serpent as emblem of the imagination. Byatt, A. S. The Game. Chatto and Windus. 4 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | SW
puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | She goes on to quote Johnson
, Cowper
, Emerson
(with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
(a passage about communion... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Beer | PB
produces a cryptic comment on the popular notion of literary androgyny in Transvestism in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë. Belatedly, she says, she has realised that the most important question in the novels... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The heroine's friend, foil, and rival in love, Reine Chrétien is an unusual character in Victorian fiction insofar as she is self-sufficient yet passionate, French, of peasant stock and an actively working woman, but also... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Brontë
's publisher, Smith, Elder and Co.
, rejected HM
's pro-Catholic
novel entitled Oliver Weld, which Charlotte had persuaded her friend to write because of her admiration for Deerbrook. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 382 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 692 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Cambridge | The Author's Introduction is followed by one hundred short poems divided into two sections, which variously treat the central themes of mortality, impermanence, or the saving grace of Christianity. The poems are predominantly but not... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In an interview of 1893, Helen C. Black
described RNC
as tall, slender, and erect with large blue-grey eyes with long lashes,soft dark hair, and a low, tuneful voice. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren. 147-8 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrice Harraden | The child protagonist of Things Will Take a Turn, Rose (always called either Childie or Rosebud), has a grandfather who runs an unprofitable second-hand bookshop. She has read a lot and has (as well... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | This novel is influenced by Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, and like much of DMC
's fiction it makes frequent allusion to a wide range of romantic and Victorian poets. Like Jane Eyre, its... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | With this volume, says UAF
, I entered the different world of S. Martin's, Lancaster, and of France; and I was just beginning to have things to say about the condition of women... |
| 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 | 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 |
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