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 Production A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR published a survey of modern English literature for French readers: Grands écrivains d'outre-manche: lesBrontëAnne Brontë , Thackeray , Les Browning [both Elizabeth and Robert ], Rossetti.
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson
Textual Production May Sinclair
The first of MS 's introductions to the Everyman's Library reprints of the BrontëAnne BrontëEmily Brontë sisters' novels, the one to Wuthering Heights, was published.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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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.
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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 May Sinclair
MS published The Three Brontës, a critical and interpretive essay assessing Charlotte , Anne , and Emily as people and as artists.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 Elizabeth Gaskell
Immediately after the death of her friend Charlotte Brontë on 31 March 1855, EG began gathering details of her life and death, and planning to write a book to make people honour the woman as...
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 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 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...
Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
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.
Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press.
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Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 153-68.
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She officially adopted authorship as her profession...
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.
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Textual Production Emily Brontë
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.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
ER 's novel White Violets, or, Great Powers, which she wrote in 1909 (just after the first unexpurgated appearance of Elizabeth Gaskell 's life of Charlotte Brontë ), remained unpublished, for reasons that are...

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