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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Textual Features | Patricia Beer | PB
here considers a series of canonical authors, Austen
, Eliot
, Charlotte Brontë
, and Elizabeth Gaskell
, and the way that the Woman Question was handled in fiction. Critic John Mullan
notes her... |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
Textual Features | Barbara Pym | Several critics have noted the influence on this novel of Charlotte Brontë
. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 86-90 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 41, 57 |
Textual Features | Anne Mozley | The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM
begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer... |
Textual Features | Phyllis Bentley | Set (like its successors) in the fictional valley of the Ire (based on the Colne Valley) in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Inheritance follows five generations of three families involved in the cloth... |
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... |
Residence | Anne Lister | |
Reception | Emily Brontë | Charlotte made substantial revisions to EB
's poetry in this edition that included some previously unpublished work. Although she cast her editorial interventions as mere corrections, she made substantial changes, such as substituting one word... |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | The quality of EG
's fiction was recognised early by her contemporaries. George Eliot
exempted her, along with Harriet Martineau
and Charlotte Brontë
, from the ranks of Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, noting... |
Reception | Julia Kavanagh | Critics have drawn different conclusions from the perceived connection between JK
's life and her works. Katharine S. Macquoid
noted in 1897 that Kavanagh never obtrudes her personality on the reader, though she lifts him... |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | The first critical edition of EG
's works, in 10 volumes, appeared in 2005 and 2006 edited by a distinguished team of scholars headed by Joanne Shattock
. It includes previously unpublished materials including some... |
Reception | Vita Sackville-West | The enthusiastic review by J. C. Squire
was not entirely welcome to VSW
, since she regarded Squire as a silly old ass and all that. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 167 |
Reception | George Sand | Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS
: Geraldine Jewsbury
, Matilda Hays
, Anne Ogle
, Eliza Lynn Linton
, Mathilde Blind
, and, most notably, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
and George Eliot |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | Announcement of the second edition of EG
's The Life of Charlotte Brontë produced a threat from Lady Scott
's solicitors of a libel suit unless the publishers
withdrew all mention of their client and publicly apologized. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 426-7 |
Reception | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
, whose works sold very well, was regarded as a major female author during the mid-Victorian period. She was incensed when in 1882 some one wrote a sketch of her life, and requested her... |
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