Charlotte Brontë

VH modifies the gothic here to explore the psychological strains felt by sexually-frustrated women. Marie Secor finds a Charlotte Brontë -ish quality introduced into Hunt's writing with this work. Secor also notes that its...

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...

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]...

Originally intending to focus upon her subject's time in New Zealand, Stevens felt the need to contextualize MT 's position as an independent merchant in Wellington within the overall life of this spirited woman, and...

Through this novel, VH reconfigures the conventional governess narrative through the character, perceptions, and experiences of her heroine, Amy Steevens. Though often compared to Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre for her intelligent self-reliance, Amy...

PB here considers a series of canonical authors, Austen , Eliot , Charlotte Brontë , and Elizabeth Gaskell , and the way that the Woman Question was handled in fiction. Critic John Mullan notes her...

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...

While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive in the eyes of some, the heroine here defies such a one-sided image. Leonard Woolf found Mary Jocelyn very reserved...

The protagonist of this novel, Victoria Sedley, has early thoughts about her status as a separate self, which critic Patricia Murphy calls Cartes ian, but she later grows up into the confines of a woman's...

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...

Carol Watts notes the influence of two writers in particular on this volume. As she suggests, Miriam's personal and creative journey begins with a departure, as does Lucy Snowe's in Charlotte Brontë 's Villette...

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.

The word regional, said Welty, is careless, condescending, and an outsider's term; it has no meaning for the insider who is doing the writing.Jane Austen , theBrontësisters , and the writers...

Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, the revue explores many facets of a woman's life, from her dramas, her traumas, and her fiascos to her fainting spasms; / the ins-and-outs of her...

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...