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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors.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 |
| 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 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Gaskell | Amidst scandal, and after months of revisions, EG
published her third edition of The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 431, 443-4 |
| Author summary | Elizabeth Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell
, one of the foremost fiction-writers of the mid-Victorian period, produced a corpus of seven novels, numerous short stories, and a controversial biography of Charlotte Brontë
. She wrote extensively for periodicals, as... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | In August 1850, Charlotte Brontë
and EG
finally met at Gawthorpe Hall, near Burnley, home of Sir James Philips Kay-Shuttleworth
. They had first corresponded a year previously, when Charlotte sent Elizabeth the manuscript... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
met novelist Charlotte Brontë
at the home of Sir James
and Lady Kay-Shuttleworth
in the Lake District. On 27 June 1851 Brontë visited Gaskell at her home in Manchester; this was the... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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