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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Beer | PB
produces a cryptic comment on the popular notion of literary androgyny in Transvestism in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë. Belatedly, she says, she has realised that the most important question in the novels... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The heroine's friend, foil, and rival in love, Reine Chrétien is an unusual character in Victorian fiction insofar as she is self-sufficient yet passionate, French, of peasant stock and an actively working woman, but also... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Brontë
's publisher, Smith, Elder and Co.
, rejected HM
's pro-Catholic
novel entitled Oliver Weld, which Charlotte had persuaded her friend to write because of her admiration for Deerbrook. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 382 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 692 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Cambridge | The Author's Introduction is followed by one hundred short poems divided into two sections, which variously treat the central themes of mortality, impermanence, or the saving grace of Christianity. The poems are predominantly but not... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In an interview of 1893, Helen C. Black
described RNC
as tall, slender, and erect with large blue-grey eyes with long lashes,soft dark hair, and a low, tuneful voice. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren. 147-8 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrice Harraden | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | This novel is influenced by Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, and like much of DMC
's fiction it makes frequent allusion to a wide range of romantic and Victorian poets. Like Jane Eyre, its... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | With this volume, says UAF
, I entered the different world of S. Martin's, Lancaster, and of France; and I was just beginning to have things to say about the condition of women... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Mary Moore | The title-page quotes from Shakespeare
(What's past is Prologue) and Cicero
(That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co. prelims |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | Mirror Talk asks: Is that my mother now behind the glass, looking / dark-eyed and weary, as if doubting / whether I can be trusted to count pills . . . . Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet. 5 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | MR
claims to have been astonished when she found she had written a bloody corpse in the opening chapter again! Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34. 123 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Shuttle | The first book that affected PS
deeply was Brontë
's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8. 48 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Kavanagh | 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. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. II: 182 |
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