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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Jean Rhys | JR
published her final, groundbreaking novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, in part a retelling of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre. Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland. 67 Sternlicht, Sanford. Jean Rhys. Twayne. 104 |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
was reportedly engaged for a time in the later 1850s, but the identity of her suitor is not known. Publisher George Smith
records having admired her. He said that Charlotte Brontë
, when they... |
Education | Jean Plaidy | Eleanor Alice Burford (later JP
) learned how to read at four years old: I do feel that books were my thing, right from the word go, she told an interviewer in 1991. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
Reception | Jean Plaidy | In 1991, JP
said of Mistress of Mellyn: This was the sort of book that I loved to write, because I had read so much of the BrontësCharlotte BrontëAnne Brontë
, over and over again, and... |
Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Reviewers greeted this novel with praise, drawing parallels with Brontë
's Jane Eyre and Du Maurier
's Rebecca. Alex Stuart
in John O' London's noted its utterly compulsive, drug-like, addictive quality. Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert: "Queen of Romantic Suspense". http://members.tripod.com/jeanplaidy/index.htm. |
Education | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Her family's financial troubles prevented EJP
from receiving a formal or thorough education. In her own words, education was not within the reach of the gently born who were also poor, therefore I had little... |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | Both Charlotte Brontë
and Charles Dickens
mentioned the appearance of this novel in their letters. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 12 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Oliphant | MO
attacks the sensation novel, a genre of fiction which she judges to be low in subject-matter (especially in its handling of sexual material), low in class connotations, and associated chiefly with women. Her idea... |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | Oliphant's contribution was The Sisters BrontëEmily BrontëAnne Brontë, a sharply perceived and proto-feminist analysis. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 343 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
left unpublished a number of personal writings. They include an essay on the cage birds she kept, written in 1886, and several vehement Brontësque
outpourings about her deafness and other troubles. Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, and Charlotte Grace O’Brien. “Introductory Memoir”. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Maunsel, pp. 3-135. 132 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna O'Brien | EOB
has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen
, Emily Dickinson
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Anna Akhmatova
, Anita Brookner
, and Margaret Atwood
, adding: Every... |
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