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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Textual Production | Mary Taylor | MT
's writing is driven by passion for social change. After reading her friend Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, she responded: You are very different from me in having no doctrine to preach.... |
Textual Features | Mary Taylor | In essence, Miss Miles presents and evaluates four case studies of young middle-class women struggling to earn and enjoy a living. Sarah's Aunt Jane details the obstacles facing working women: There's no decent way fit... |
Reception | Mary Taylor | It appears that Miss Miles received very little critical response. As Juliet Barker
recently noted, it sank without a trace, perhaps because its belated publication (more than forty years after it was begun) meant that... |
Textual Features | Mary Taylor | Originally intending to focus upon her subject's time in New Zealand, Stevens felt the need to contextualize MT
's position as an independent merchant in Wellington within the overall life of this spirited woman, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | Palladian presents a thick weave of literary allusions. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 161-2 Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne. 10 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Taylor | MT
met Charlotte Brontë
and Ellen Nussey
at Miss Wooler's
school; they became lifelong friends. Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press. 1, 9, 13 |
Literary responses | Hesba Stretton | Calling the novel an offspring of a bold imagination, the Athenæum comments that it is written without labour or spurious ornament, and that certain scenes are very well described. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2046 (1867): 44 |
Textual Production | Mary Stewart | 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2961 (28 November 1958): 684 Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers. 19 |
Literary responses | Emily Spender | The Athenæum reviewer, Almaric Rumsey
, guessed the novelist's gender from the use of the bigamy motif, which he felt to be obviously derivative from more talented novelists (Wilkie Collins
's recently published The... |
Occupation | Robert Southey | RS
's popular success as a poet and his position as Poet Laureate from 1813 caused aspiring authors to seek him out for advice. He famously advised Charlotte Brontë
, [l]iterature cannot be the business... |
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. 213 |
Textual Production | May Sinclair | |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Sinclair | MS
's The Three Sisters appeared: a psychological/psychoanalytical novel which, although the sisters in question are not the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë
, seems to take its setting from that of their lives. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 108, 225-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Sigerson | She had met him through Katharine Tynan, and they became engaged in September 1895 after a long courtship. Their loving marriage lasted the rest of Dora's life. They never had children. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 240 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Penelope Shuttle | Some sources say that PS
attended a secondary modern school in Staines (that is one with non-academic aims and expectations). But attendance at a private school is strongly implied by her poem about a girls'... |
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