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.
Etching of Charlotte Brontë after a portrait by George Richmond, 1850. She is seen from the waist up, seated, with one elbow resting on a table, that hand holding a small book and the other on her lap, holding a handkerchief. She wears a flat ribbon round her neck, and a dark dress, buttoned in front, with lace trim on the sleeves and bodice. Her dark, smooth hair is pulled back and tied with a dark ribbon.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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, 1993.
426-7
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.
qtd. in
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
167
She feared being relegated to the category of...
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, 1974.
218
Residence Anne Lister
For the rest of her life AL lived at fifteenth-century Shibden Hall.
Shibden Hall is now a folk museum.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Halifax, the urban centre of AL 's life, is about twelve miles from Haworth...
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
MRM has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins 's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron 's Childe Harold.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
1: 133, 152
She despises Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis as a delightful mixture of cant and affectation...
Textual Features Jane Austen
The plot of this novel is a version of a romance archetype: poor but deserving girl confounds all expectations by marrying up. Elizabeth Bennet is the quintessence of the witty and resourceful heroine who had...
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, 1992.
86-90
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
41, 57
At the opening of this novel, Catherine's fashionable, modern appearance is said to be so stark that she looks...
Textual Features Ruby M. Ayres
Dark Gentleman carries an unascribed epigraph from Caroline Norton : Until I truly loved—I was alone.
Ayres, Ruby M. Dark Gentleman. Hodder and Stoughton, 1953.
title-page
Its title is the name given by Judith Anson to Simon Trenchard, with whom at last she achieves...
Textual Features Eliza Lynn Linton
The novel, like the much earlier Grasp Your Nettle, features an off-stage Brontë esque mad wife.
Sanders, Valerie, and Eliza Lynn Linton. “Appendix F: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Canon”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem and Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 475-87.
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Textual Features Anne Mozley
The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer...
Textual Features Mary Taylor
In essence, Miss Miles presents and evaluates four case studies of young middle-class women struggling to earn and enjoy a living. Sarah's Aunt Jane details the obstacles facing working women: There's no decent way fit...
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...

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