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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
called this work simply a little country love story, Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 251 |
| Literary responses | Anne Mozley | George Eliot
not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's
expressly so that it... |
| Literary responses | Jessie Fothergill | The Spectator reviewer admitted to surprise at this novel, since whereas The First Violin and Probation were clever and interesting, it found little, if anything, in them to lead us to expect that their author... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Around the time of Ruth's appearance, Swedish novelist and feminist Fredrika Bremer
(who was probably introduced to EG
by William
and Mary Howitt
) wrote: Dear Elizabeth, dear sister in spirit, if I may... |
| Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane... |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | This novel was not as successful as JK
's earlier efforts. Charlotte Brontë
confided to William Smith Williams
, I have tried to read Daisy Burns; at the close of the 1st Vol. I... |
| Literary responses | Anne Brontë | The novel was reviewed immediately by The Spectator and the Athenæum. The former accused the author of a morbid love for the coarse, not to say the brutal, and objected to the coarseness of... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | The Athenæum review by Lena Eden
professed itself disgusted not so much by Dr Jacob's hypocritical and despicable character as by his gall in presuming to set himself up as a hero at an age... |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë
told Williams
that she read this work with gratification and found that Kavanagh's charity and (on the whole) her impartiality are very beautiful. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. III: 326 |
| Literary responses | Jean Rhys | Later critics speak of the book as her masterpiece, and as a work of genius, praising its ground-breaking colonial and canonical critique. Coral Ann Howells
comments that Wide Sargasso Sea has not only taken up... |
| Literary responses | Anne Brontë | After AB
's death, Charlotte
considered her sister's novelhardly . . . desirable to preserve and the subject matter an entire mistake. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 274 |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | Later reviewers have linked the confessional theme and High Church tendencies Parkes, Bessie Rayner. In a Walled Garden. Ward and Downey. 104 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | The young Virginia Stephen
(usually a reviewer hard to please) praised this book warmly: few living novelists are so genuinely gifted as Miss Robins, or can produce work to match hers for strength and sincerity... |
| Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 213-28. 214 |
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