Charlotte 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...

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.

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...

The child protagonist of Things Will Take a Turn, Rose (always called either Childie or Rosebud), has a grandfather who runs an unprofitable second-hand bookshop. She has read a lot and has (as well...

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...

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

LMA began writing while she was very young. At the age of ten she began a journal which was soon afterwards read and commented on by her mother . She was also a regular contributor...

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...

JR 's Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre; it presents a significantly different perspective on the characters met in Brontë 's novel. The character Jane Eyre never appears at all, and...

Exploiting the style of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre, BC published a novel entitled The Poor Governess.

This tie broadens the social scope of the novel. Karl is Jewish but not an observant Jew. He wishes he could believe in Christianity for its redeeming message and wants to extend that choice to...

Two years before Nathalie appeared, JK had told Charlotte Brontë that Jane Eyrehad been to her a suggestive book. Reporting this, Brontë added, and I know that suggestive books are valuable to authors.

The title story uses mud or muddy almost thirty times. MR writes, as always, as a feminist; these stories occupy a borderline between the self-making of women and their appropriation into patriarchal stories. She enjoys...

Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue and first-person narration as Jane attempts...

This novel moves deeper into the spare but striking presentation of childhood cruelty and suffering. Edmund Hooper, whose mother is dead, lives alone with his father in a gloomy and lonely house on the outskirts...