Charlotte Brontë

CGOB left unpublished a number of personal writings. They include an essay on the cage birds she kept, written in 1886, and several vehement Brontësque outpourings about her deafness and other troubles.

As a child SW loved writing poems and stories, all entirely derivative from her reading of popular books like the Dr Who novelizations. In the sixth form at school she began to find the study...

EOB has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen , Emily Dickinson , Elizabeth Bowen , Anna Akhmatova , Anita Brookner , and Margaret Atwood , adding: Every...

Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue and first-person narration as Jane attempts...

Critics have pointed to a range of influences and allusions in this novel. Kate Flint has suggested that the representation of the sorrowful-eyed aesthete Francis Chaloner was a satiric jab at Oscar Wilde , who...

The year must be one of the most emotionally eventful in the history of school stories. Hester gets off on the wrong foot with devil-may-care Annie Forest. (Annie's mother, too, is dead, having committed her...

SW puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting...

A Fool in Her Folly (which is strongly reminiscent of A Beginner, 1894) features a twenty-year-old protagonist who begins to write in secret, inspired by Guy Livingstone (by George Alfred Lawrence , to whom...

Ann Radcliffe 's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre have been cited as possible sources.

In this book a little girl who gets hold of Brontë 's Jane Eyre from the adult shelves and reads it in secret is felt to be doing a very unsuitable as well as a...

The poem relates in Aurora's first-person blank-verse narrative the story of her childhood and young adulthood. The child of an English father and Italian mother, orphaned young and brought up as a member of the...

This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they...

Edward Copeland thinks that this is the most challenging of LCB 's novels because of the complex interrelationship, in Delamere, between aristocratic pastimes, the arts, and the Whig aristocracy. He sees the amateur theatricals as...

SG 's characters are amusing caricatures of socialites, intellectuals, and rustics. Flora's city friend, the modern young widow Mrs Smiling, for instance, has a large collection of suitors and an even larger collection of brassières...

Palladian presents a thick weave of literary allusions. As its title implies, this novel is set in a country house dating back to the eighteenth century. Just as the title suggests the English...