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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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 | Rebecca Harding Davis | The book was initially well-received. A reviewer for the mostly female-oriented Peterson's Magazine, for instance, declared that [o]n some of the deepest problems that agitate humanity [RHD
] has evidently thought much and... |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Emily Brontë | During childhood and early adulthood the Brontë siblings produced elaborate fantasy worlds, which they acted out as plays, in part with toy figures. These worlds came to have individualized personae, geographies, and histories, which... |
Leisure and Society | Charlotte Guest | Lady CG
enjoyed cultured activities like the theatre and the opera throughout her life. Reading Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
in December 1850 she thought it singular . . . written with force but coarseness, and not of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Rhys | JR
's Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre; it presents a significantly different perspective on the characters met in Brontë
's novel. The character Jane Eyre never appears at all, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Jane Worboise | Each chapter begins with a religious epigraph. This novel recounts the story of the attractive nineteen-year-old bride, Lilian Grey, who makes a marriage above her social class with the aristocratic Basil Hope. Worboise, Emma Jane. The Wife’s Trials; Married Life; Husbands and Wives. Garland. Wife's Trials: 1-3, 9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa May Alcott | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Cartland | Exploiting the style of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, BC
published a novel entitled The Poor Governess. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Catherine Hume | In the first section of the poem, the lord of Normiton Hall, Albert, is inspired to wed. His first choice is Maud, a woman who shares his philosophical interests. She declines however, since her faith... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | Her critique of the Victorian family may have been inspired by Caroline Helstone's plight in Charlotte Brontë
's Shirley. Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice. 77 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Frankau | This tie broadens the social scope of the novel. Karl is Jewish but not an observant Jew. He wishes he could believe in Christianity for its redeeming message and wants to extend that choice to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Sinclair | MS
's The Three Sisters appeared: a psychological/psychoanalytical novel which, although the sisters in question are not the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë
, seems to take its setting from that of their lives. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 108, 225-6 |
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