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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Reception | Emily Brontë | Not until after a larger selection of poems, heavily edited by Charlotte
, was included along with the biographical preface in the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, did EB
's poetry begin to receive... |
Reception | Anne Brontë | An anonymous reviewer of Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights in The Spectator for 18 December 1847 commented that the work of all three Charlotte BrontëEmily BrontëBrontë
s suffered from injudicious selection of the theme and matter. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 218 |
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's poetry in this edition that included some previously unpublished work.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 It includes previously unpublished materials including some... |
Residence | Anne Lister | |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Robins | It presents, in a light and humorous tone, three models of writing women: Charlotte Brontë
as a genius of the past, speaking from beyond the grave (or perhaps being fraudulently made to speak); a Victorian... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Mew | The essay treats works by women writers, such as Anne Thackeray Ritchie
's The Village on the Cliff and Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre and Villette, alongside works by men. |
Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 3 |
Textual Features | Caroline Clive | In a preface CC
addresses criticism of her previous work, Paul Ferroll. She writes: The opinions of the Public are like Fate. An Author may loudly declare them unjust, but he does not alter... |
Textual Features | Mary Ann Kelty | This is a novel of two generations, each part of which seems to contain a faint foreshadowing of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre. It traces the personal and family experience of Catherine Dorrington, who... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | While Charlotte Brontë
, MEC
argues, swept the world away in the storm of her passion and George Eliotconquered it with the power of understanding, [Elizabeth] Gaskell
forced it to weep for pity [and]... |
Textual Features | Dorothy L. Sayers | Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened... |
Textual Features | Lettice Cooper | Cooper's eight lives form a more varied selection than those of her companion volumes, stretching from the Earl of Strafford
and Blind Jack Metcalf
of Knaresborough via Charlotte Brontë
and Sir Titus Salt
(manufacturer, philanthropist... |
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