Charlotte Brontë

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...

Charlotte Brontë 's poem We wove a web in childhood appears as epigraph, along with a sentence from Coleridge about the serpent as emblem of the imagination. Both web and serpent are ominous. This...

The writers considered (each for a single novel) are Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot , Willa Cather (for nine of whose works ASB also wrote Virago introductions),Iris Murdoch , and Toni Morrison .

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...

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...

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...

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...

It appears that EFB had at least two sisters, and that they may have both been writers. An article written after EFB revealed her authorship of A Superfluous Woman quotes her still undiscovered biographer: There...

It seems that EFB began writing seriously for financial reasons after her sudden loss of fortune and her move south to Hampstead in London in 1879. She officially adopted authorship as her profession...

The novel was reviewed immediately by The Spectator and the Athenæum. The former accused the author of a morbid love for the coarse, not to say the brutal, and objected to the coarseness of...

Charlotte made substantial revisions to EB 's poetry in this edition that included some previously unpublished work. Although she cast her editorial interventions as mere corrections, she made substantial changes, such as substituting one word...

After AB 's death, Charlotte considered her sister's novelhardly . . . desirable to preserve and the subject matter an entire mistake. She therefore concurred with her publisher's plan to reprint not this...

In a letter to her publisher, Charlotte Brontë reported with concern that her sister Emily was too ill to write: she had a cough and fever.

Charlotte Brontë discovered a book of EB 's manuscript poetry and was convinced that she should publish it; this led to their first, joint publication (with Anne ) of their Poems.

The Brontë sisters, Charlotte , Anne , and Emily , received copies of their first publication: a collection of Poems published at their expense under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.