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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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 Dinah Mulock Craik
Freed as a disabled woman from the expectations of conventional femininity, Olive leads an independent life and struggles to become a successful painter, strengthened by her reading of Shelley and Byron . But she foregoes...
Textual Features Elizabeth Robins
It presents, in a light and humorous tone, three models of writing women: Charlotte Brontë as a genius of the past, speaking from beyond the grave (or perhaps being fraudulently made to speak); a Victorian...
Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
In 1949 PB both arranged and introduced the six-volume Heather Edition of the Brontës' works, and supplied an introduction for an edition of Charlotte Brontë 's The Professor, which was published with poems and...
Textual Production Mary Taylor
Joan Stevens published a collection of MT 's surviving letters: Mary Taylor: Friend of Charlotte Brontë ; Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
Textual Production Emily Brontë
A letter from her publisher Newby in February 1848 suggests that EB had consulted him about the publication of another novel, then in progress. At the end of the year, he announced that another work...
Textual Production A. Mary F. Robinson
An American edition appeared the same year.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Commissioned to write the biography in 1882, AMFR conducted an ambitious research programme, including interviews with living friends of the literary sisters. Ellen Nussey , a friend...
Textual Production Angela Carter
She also wrote introductions to works by various writers and artists, including Walter De la Mare , Christina Stead , Gilbert Hernandez , Frida Kahlo , and Charlotte Brontë .
Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press, 1998.
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Textual Production E. M. Delafield
In the same year, EMD edited the book of literary criticism, The BrontëCharlotte BrontëEmily Brontë s: Their Lives Recorded by Their Contemporaries, published by Hogarth Press .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Zarin, Cynthia. “The Diarist: How E. M. Delafield Launched a Genre”. New Yorker, 9 May 2005, pp. 44-9.
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Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
MAW produced a series of introductions to the Haworth edition of works by Charlotte , Emily , and Anne Brontë .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant's contribution was The Sisters BrontëEmily BrontëAnne Brontë, a sharply perceived and proto-feminist analysis.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
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Textual Production Michèle Roberts
MR published a novel entitled Reader, I Married Him, bearing the date 2004. A commentator used the words flip and ironic
Leatherbarrow, Linda. “How to write like: Michele Roberts”. Mslexia, No. 24, Jan. 2005, p. 47.
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for her title's quotation of Charlotte Brontë .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Leatherbarrow, Linda. “How to write like: Michele Roberts”. Mslexia, No. 24, Jan. 2005, p. 47.
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Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
In her essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures, QDL also developed varied critiques of such authors as Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot , Charlotte Yonge , Marie Corelli , Edith Wharton , Naomi Mitchison , Amabel Williams-Ellis
Textual Production Willa Cather
In the 1920s WC was working for a maximum of three hours a day, banishing her work from her mind during the rest of day, but keeping herself fresh for it. She said her only...
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...

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