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
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anne Brontë | Although some of the collaboratively produced juvenilia of the Brontë children is still extant, none has survived that was individually authored by AB
. Chitham, Edward. A Life of Anne Brontë. B. Blackwell. 5 |
Health | Emily Brontë | EB
apparently had a very independent character. In a famous incident related to Elizabeth Gaskell
by Charlotte
, Emily tried to help a possibly rabid dog, only to have it bite her. She immediately went... |
Textual Production | Anne Brontë | Charlotte
, Emily
, and Anne published a collection, Poems, under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Bell was the middle name of their father's curate. Gérin, Winifred. Emily Brontë: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 185 |
Education | Emily Brontë | A plan was formed that the sisters would open their own school to support themselves, and Charlotte
decided that she and Emily needed further education in order to distinguish themselves from their competitors. On 8... |
Literary responses | Anne Brontë | On 4 July 1846 two anonymous reviews of Poems by Currer
, Ellis
and Acton Bell
appeared, one mildly positive by Sydney Dobell
in the Athenæum, and one enthusiastic in the Critic. A... |
Reception | Emily Brontë | Not until after a larger selection of poems, heavily edited by Charlotte
, was included along with the biographical preface in the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, did EB
's poetry begin to receive... |
Reception | Anne Brontë | An anonymous reviewer of Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights in The Spectator for 18 December 1847 commented that the work of all three Charlotte BrontëEmily BrontëBrontë
s suffered from injudicious selection of the theme and matter. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 218 |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Brontë | Critic Elizabeth Langland credits AB
's first novel as one of the first by a woman to tell a humble, domestic story and to discover the techniques by which it could win an audience. The... |
Fictionalization | Emily Brontë | Charlotte
's Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, her prefaces to Wuthering Heights, and the selection of poems sought to defend her sisters' character and works from the charges of reviewers. She... |
Literary responses | Anne Brontë | 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... |
Reception | Emily Brontë | 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... |
Literary responses | Anne Brontë | After AB
's death, Charlotte
considered her sister's novelhardly . . . desirable to preserve and the subject matter an entire mistake. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 274 |
Health | Emily Brontë | 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. Brontë, Charlotte. The Letters of Charlotte Brontë. Editor Smith, Margaret, Clarendon Press. 2: 138 |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë |
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