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.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | The heroine is described as deriving from a long line of English gentry, Whig supporters of the Empire: a tedious race perhaps and pig-headed, tyrannical too here and there, but on the whole honourable English... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | As a child SW
loved writing poems and stories, all entirely derivative from her reading of popular books like the Dr Who novelizations. In the sixth form at school she began to find the study... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | SW
puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | 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... |
Performance of text | Fay Weldon | FW
's career as a playwright was active and successful by the late 1960s, and she has written many one-act plays, as well as longer pieces. Her works for theatre include an adaptation from four... |
Textual Features | Eudora Welty | 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... |
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 |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | 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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Virginia Woolf | The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. ix - xv. x |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Jane Worboise | Each chapter begins with a religious epigraph. This novel recounts the story of the attractive nineteen-year-old bride, Lilian Grey, who makes a marriage above her social class with the aristocratic Basil Hope. Worboise, Emma Jane. The Wife’s Trials; Married Life; Husbands and Wives. Garland. Wife's Trials: 1-3, 9 |
Textual Production | Emma Jane Worboise | EJW
published her purified and evangelicalized reworking of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre under the title Thornycroft Hall: Its Owners and its Heirs. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1940 (1864): 893 Jay, Elisabeth. The Religion of the Heart: Anglican Evangelicalism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Clarendon Press. 246 |
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