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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Travel Elizabeth Gaskell
Hereafter, Gaskell escaped from Manchester, which increasingly wearied her, by going abroad at least once a year. She spent that summer travelling through London, Wales, and then back to France, this time to...
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
although it climaxes with a fire and a shipwreck. Charlotte Brontë liked it, and Mary Forster recorded her brother Matthew Arnold 's enjoyment of...
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 Elizabeth Gaskell
Most reviews of North and South were positive, athough some criticized EG for what they saw as inaccuracies in her portrayal of northern industrial life. Chorley in the Athenæum called this one of the best...
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
Immediately after the death of her friend Charlotte Brontë on 31 March 1855, EG began gathering details of her life and death, and planning to write a book to make people honour the woman as...
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 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 It includes previously unpublished materials including some...
Travel Elizabeth Gaskell
EG , wearied from a long year spent writing her biography of Charlotte Brontë , arrived in Rome for a holiday; she returned there several times in the next few years.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
415-17
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
EG received a letter from Patrick Brontë asking her to write his daughter Charlotte 's biography.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
392, 656n9
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
While researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë , EG was warned by Henry Chorley that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
403
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
EG published (using her own name for the first time) her influential and exhaustively researched The Life of Charlotte Brontë; initial reviews were positive, but the possibility of a libel suit brewed.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
424, 426
Education Mary Gawthorpe
Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...
Intertextuality and Influence Karen Gershon
This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they...
Intertextuality and Influence Stella Gibbons
SG 's characters are amusing caricatures of socialites, intellectuals, and rustics. Flora's city friend, the modern young widow Mrs Smiling, for instance, has a large collection of suitors and an even larger collection of brassières...
Textual Production Rumer Godden
Years before, Rumer had hoped they might be the new Brontësisters .
Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books.
158
They felt they knew India better than most adult Anglo-Indians.

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