Charlotte Brontë

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.

By 1912 VW had published on Margaret Cavendish (as Duchess of Newcastle), Ann, Lady Fanshawe , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Seward , Elizabeth, Lady Holland , Maria Edgeworth , Lady Hester Stanhope , theBrontë

The fourth novel by MS , Nine Coaches Waiting, was a governess novel, which has drawn comparisons with Daphne du Maurier 's Rebecca and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre.

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).

PB published her first of five critical texts about the lives and works of the threeBrontësisters , The Brontës.

MO attacks the sensation novel, a genre of fiction which she judges to be low in subject-matter (especially in its handling of sexual material), low in class connotations, and associated chiefly with women. Her idea...

Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues...

She omits reviews from this collection, but provides readers with an opportunity to consider literary topics. The Translation of Poetry argues that because [i]n poetry the form of the thought is part of the thought...

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...

It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion...

ML defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source. An ecstatic state is one in which...

Many of the essays reprinted here focus on women writers who were, to put it mildly, little known to the public in the 1940s. These included: Anna Seward and Joanna Baillie , as well as...

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...

In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen , Maria Edgeworth ,...

The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan , William Lovett