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 | Joan Stevens
published a collection of MT
's surviving letters: Mary Taylor: Friend of Charlotte Brontë
; Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press. |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
Textual Production | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe
's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to... |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | She followed it up in in her address of 10 January 1913 as President of the English Association
, published in pamphlet form as A Discourse on Modern Sibyls, as well as in From... |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | ET
turned her attention from Jane Austen to Charlotte Brontë
with Adèle, Jane Eyre's Hidden Story, which retells the Jane-Rochester romance from the point of view of the watching child-pupil. “Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | Another Brontë
spin-off about Adèle, The French Dancer's Bastard, appeared in 2006. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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 |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
published a novel entitled Reader, I Married Him, bearing the date 2004. A commentator used the words flip and ironic Leatherbarrow, Linda. “How to write like: Michele Roberts”. Mslexia, No. 24, p. 47. 47 Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Leatherbarrow, Linda. “How to write like: Michele Roberts”. Mslexia, No. 24, p. 47. 47 |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | In 1933 RW
wrote an essay about Emmeline Pankhurst
for The Post-Victorians. She also wrote essays about Charlotte Brontë
, for The Great Victorians (1932), and Elizabeth Montagu
, for From Anne to Victoria (1937). West, Rebecca. “Bibliography”. Rebecca West: A Celebration, edited by Samuel Hynes, Viking Press, pp. 761-6. 763-4 |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bentley | PB
published her first of five critical texts about the lives and works of the threeBrontësisters
, The Brontës. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. TLS Archive (19 July 1947): 362 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research. 27 |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
Textual Features | Barbara Pym | Several critics have noted the influence on this novel of Charlotte Brontë
. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 86-90 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 41, 57 |
Textual Features | Anne Mozley | The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM
begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer... |
Textual Features | Phyllis Bentley | Set (like its successors) in the fictional valley of the Ire (based on the Colne Valley) in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Inheritance follows five generations of three families involved in the cloth... |
Textual Features | Eliza Lynn Linton | The novel, like the much earlier Grasp Your Nettle, features an off-stage Brontë
esque mad wife. Sanders, Valerie, and Eliza Lynn Linton. “Appendix F: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Canon”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem and Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, pp. 475-87. 479 |
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