Charlotte Brontë

The word regional, said Welty, is careless, condescending, and an outsider's term; it has no meaning for the insider who is doing the writing.Jane Austen , theBrontësisters , and the writers...

The novel, like the much earlier Grasp Your Nettle, features an off-stage Brontë esque mad wife.

While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive in the eyes of some, the heroine here defies such a one-sided image. Leonard Woolf found Mary Jocelyn very reserved...

VH modifies the gothic here to explore the psychological strains felt by sexually-frustrated women. Marie Secor finds a Charlotte Brontë -ish quality introduced into Hunt's writing with this work. Secor also notes that its...

AR 's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience became one of her most controversial and influential theories. Rejecting established definitions of lesbianism as pathology, she means to acknowledge the...

The plot of this novel is a version of a romance archetype: poor but deserving girl confounds all expectations by marrying up. Elizabeth Bennet is the quintessence of the witty and resourceful heroine who had...

Through this novel, VH reconfigures the conventional governess narrative through the character, perceptions, and experiences of her heroine, Amy Steevens. Though often compared to Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre for her intelligent self-reliance, Amy...

Carol Watts notes the influence of two writers in particular on this volume. As she suggests, Miriam's personal and creative journey begins with a departure, as does Lucy Snowe's in Charlotte Brontë 's Villette...

Dark Gentleman carries an unascribed epigraph from Caroline Norton : Until I truly loved—I was alone. Its title is the name given by Judith Anson to Simon Trenchard, with whom at last she achieves...

It presents, in a light and humorous tone, three models of writing women: Charlotte Brontë as a genius of the past, speaking from beyond the grave (or perhaps being fraudulently made to speak); a Victorian...

The essay treats works by women writers, such as Anne Thackeray Ritchie 's The Village on the Cliff and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre and Villette, alongside works by men.

In a preface CC addresses criticism of her previous work, Paul Ferroll. She writes: The opinions of the Public are like Fate. An Author may loudly declare them unjust, but he does not alter...

Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, the revue explores many facets of a woman's life, from her dramas, her traumas, and her fiascos to her fainting spasms; / the ins-and-outs of her...

While Charlotte Brontë , MEC argues, swept the world away in the storm of her passion and George Eliotconquered it with the power of understanding, [Elizabeth] Gaskell forced it to weep for pity [and]...

This is a novel of two generations, each part of which seems to contain a faint foreshadowing of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre. It traces the personal and family experience of Catherine Dorrington, who...