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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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... |
Author summary | Phyllis Bentley | Phyllis Bentley
was a prolific and successful novelist, literary critic, short-story writer, children's writer, and journalist, who was productive over a broad span of the twentieth century. Almost all her twenty-eight novels and numerous short... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
's now notorious review of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre appeared anonymously in the Quarterly. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 732 |
Publishing | Emily Brontë | C. W. Hatfield
's edition of The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë first revealed the extent of Charlotte Brontë
's modification of her sister's poetry in the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights. Brontë, Emily. “Introduction”. The Poems of Emily Brontë, edited by Derek Roper, Clarendon, pp. 1-29. 25 Brontë, Emily. “Introduction”. The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë, edited by Charles William Hatfield, Columbia University Press, pp. 3-13. 4-5 |
Publishing | Anne Brontë | After AB
's death, Agnes Grey was reprinted with Wuthering Heights, some of the sisters
' poetry, and a biographical preface by Charlotte
, who considered this novel more suitable than The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 654-6 Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Wuthering Heights</span>; Extract from the Prefatory Note to ’Selections from Poems by Ellis Bell’”. Wuthering Heights, edited by Professor Ian Jack and Professor Ian Jack, Oxford University Press, pp. 359 - 65; 365. 365 Brontë, Anne, and Charles William Hatfield. The Complete Poems of Anne Brontë. Editor Shorter, Clement, Hodder and Stoughton. ix Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 594 |
Publishing | Anne Brontë | |
Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
implicitly attacked Elizabeth Gaskell
's Life of Charlotte Brontë in Literary Ghouls for Chambers's. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 100, 129n7 |
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 | Anne Marsh | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes AM
's very high contemporary reputation. It cites the London Weekly Chronicle and Margaret Oliphant
each hailing her, in her heyday, as a leader among women novelists (though... |
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