Charlotte Brontë

At seventeen, she says (after the successive discoveries of Charlotte Brontë , T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson ), she began reading Rilke . Everything opened up then, a whole new world of poetry for me.

The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...

The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent , who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly...

Cherry Clayton believes the novel's fictional English setting, Greenwood, was influenced by the English landscapes in the works of Hardy , George Eliot , and the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë . Schreiner herself had not yet been to...

Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened...

Charlotte Brontë , signing as C. Bell, expressed to G. H. Lewes both praise and criticism for GS : It is poetry, as I comprehend the word, which elevates that masculine George Sand, and...

Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS : Geraldine Jewsbury , Matilda Hays , Anne Ogle , Eliza Lynn Linton , Mathilde Blind , and, most notably, Emily and Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot

The enthusiastic review by J. C. Squire was not entirely welcome to VSW , since she regarded Squire as a silly old ass and all that. She feared being relegated to the category of...

In a later generation Anna Letitia Barbauld followed Hertford and Carter in celebrating ESR her in poetry. Such different figures as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Clara Reeve endorsed her. She had a huge following...

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.

An American edition appeared the same year. 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...

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...

The young Virginia Stephen (usually a reviewer hard to please) praised this book warmly: few living novelists are so genuinely gifted as Miss Robins, or can produce work to match hers for strength and sincerity...

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...

It presents, in a light and humorous tone, three models of writing women: Charlotte Brontë as a genius of the past, speaking from beyond the grave (or perhaps being fraudulently made to speak); a Victorian...