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
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
Immediately after the death of her friend Charlotte Brontë on 31 March 1855, EG began gathering details of her life and death, and planning to write a book to make people honour the woman as...
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 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 It includes previously unpublished materials including some...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men
Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton.
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who have been interested in him: she moves on to the use of his imagery by Charlotte Brontë , Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
Later reviewers have linked the confessional theme and High Church tendencies
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. In a Walled Garden. Ward and Downey.
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of Ellen Middleton to its author's own conversion to Catholicism in 1846, two years after its publication. The Catholic World, for instance...
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...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jessie Fothergill
Referring to the novel as more powerful and far more original than Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre, Shirley, or Villette, she berates those critics who insist too exclusively upon its gloom, and...
Education Margaret Forster
As a very small child MF was noisy and demanding and given to tantrums.
Forster, Margaret. Hidden Lives. Viking.
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At two she talked in long sentences . . . and never stopped asking questions and wanting to try to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
Intertextuality and Influence Elaine Feinstein
Mirror Talk asks: Is that my mother now behind the glass, looking / dark-eyed and weary, as if doubting / whether I can be trusted to count pills . . . .
Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet.
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But not...
Intertextuality and Influence U. A. Fanthorpe
With this volume, says UAF , I entered the different world of S. Martin's, Lancaster, and of France; and I was just beginning to have things to say about the condition of women...
Literary responses Zoë Fairbairns
The anonymous Times Literary Supplement piece was mixed. Though it judged this first book predictable, it did insinuate a comparison to Brontë 's Jane Eyre, and commended the appealingly honest and perceptive treatment of...
Health Margiad Evans
As a child of about three she had terrible nightmares about people (nuns) who were running away from something, on fire and dying. She had dreadful dreams again at about seventeen, and then a recurrent...
Friends, Associates Sarah Stickney Ellis
Among her few writing friends were Mary Howitt and her relations by marriage Mary and Anna Sewell . She greatly admired without personally knowing Elizabeth Fry , and felt a personal connection to Charlotte Brontë

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