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.
Connections
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Textual Production | Emma Tennant | ET
turned her attention from Jane Austen to Charlotte Brontë
with Adèle, Jane Eyre's Hidden Story, which retells the Jane-Rochester romance from the point of view of the watching child-pupil. “Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | The publishers
of Jane Eyre bought up the remaining copies of Poems by Currer
, Ellis
, and Acton
Bell and reissued it. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 9, 64 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
received a letter from Patrick Brontë
asking her to write his daughter Charlotte
's biography. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 392, 656n9 |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | Another Brontë
spin-off about Adèle, The French Dancer's Bastard, appeared in 2006. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | While researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë
, EG
was warned by Henry Chorley
that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 403 |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
's Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and George Eliot was a harbinger of serious critical interest in the women's literary tradition. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 25 |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | EB
's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë
's Agnes Grey reappeared in a cheap, single volume with a heavily edited and annotated selection of poems and a biographical preface by Charlotte Brontë
. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 654-6 Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Wuthering Heights</span>; Extract from the Prefatory Note to ’Selections from Poems by Ellis Bell’”. Wuthering Heights, edited by Professor Ian Jack and Professor Ian Jack, Oxford University Press, pp. 359 - 65; 365. 365 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
published (using her own name for the first time) her influential and exhaustively researched The Life of Charlotte Brontë; initial reviews were positive, but the possibility of a libel suit brewed. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 424, 426 |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | In 1933 RW
wrote an essay about Emmeline Pankhurst
for The Post-Victorians. She also wrote essays about Charlotte Brontë
, for The Great Victorians (1932), and Elizabeth Montagu
, for From Anne to Victoria (1937). West, Rebecca. “Bibliography”. Rebecca West: A Celebration, edited by Samuel Hynes, Viking Press, pp. 761-6. 763-4 |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | Years before, Rumer had hoped they might be the new Brontësisters
. Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books. 158 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
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. |
Textual Production | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe
's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to... |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | She followed it up in in her address of 10 January 1913 as President of the English Association
, published in pamphlet form as A Discourse on Modern Sibyls, as well as in From... |
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