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 | 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 | Mary Taylor | It appears that Miss Miles received very little critical response. As Juliet Barker
recently noted, it sank without a trace, perhaps because its belated publication (more than forty years after it was begun) meant that... |
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... |
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... |
Residence | Anne Lister | |
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 |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
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 | Phyllis Bentley | Set (like its successors) in the fictional valley of the Ire (based on the Colne Valley) in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Inheritance follows five generations of three families involved in the cloth... |
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, pp. 475-87. 479 |
Textual Features | Flora Macdonald Mayor | While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4223 (9 March 1984): 238 |
Textual Features | Violet Hunt | VH
modifies the gothic here to explore the psychological strains felt by sexually-frustrated women. Marie Secor
finds a Charlotte Brontë
-ish quality Secor, Marie. “Violet Hunt, Novelist: A Reintroduction”. English Literature in Transition, Vol. 19 , pp. 25-34. 27 |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | AR
's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Norton. 51 |
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