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.
Etching of Charlotte Brontë after a portrait by George Richmond, 1850. She is seen from the waist up, seated, with one elbow resting on a table, that hand holding a small book and the other on her lap, holding a handkerchief. She wears a flat ribbon round her neck, and a dark dress, buttoned in front, with lace trim on the sleeves and bodice. Her dark, smooth hair is pulled back and tied with a dark ribbon.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Jane Welsh Carlyle
JWC attended a party given by Thackeray for Charlotte Brontë .
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
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Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same...
Health Dora Carrington
Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
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She had mused to Gerald Brenan in 1920...
Textual Production Angela Carter
She also wrote introductions to works by various writers and artists, including Walter De la Mare , Christina Stead , Gilbert Hernandez , Frida Kahlo , and Charlotte Brontë .
Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Barbara Cartland
Exploiting the style of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre, BC published a novel entitled The Poor Governess.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Willa Cather
In the 1920s WC was working for a maximum of three hours a day, banishing her work from her mind during the rest of day, but keeping herself fresh for it. She said her only...
Literary responses Mary Cholmondeley
Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC to Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot ; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating.
Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol.
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An Edinburgh Review article written in 1900 praised Red Pottage in...
Education Agatha Christie
By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll
Education Kate Clanchy
As a child KC loved Victorian stories for girls—Frances Hodgson Burnett 's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (or Susan Coolidge)'s What Katy Did, and Louisa May Alcott
Textual Features Caroline Clive
In a preface CC addresses criticism of her previous work, Paul Ferroll. She writes: The opinions of the Public are like Fate. An Author may loudly declare them unjust, but he does not alter...
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
While Charlotte Brontë , MEC argues, swept the world away in the storm of her passion and George Eliotconquered it with the power of understanding, [Elizabeth] Gaskell forced it to weep for pity [and]...
Literary responses Lettice Cooper
Like Cooper's previous book, this too netted a flattering comparison to a nineteenth-century woman writer. Richard Church in John O'London's likened it to Charlotte Brontë 's Villette.
Cooper, Lettice. Fenny. Gollancz.
inside dust-jacket
The British Book News review...
Textual Features Lettice Cooper
Cooper's eight lives form a more varied selection than those of her companion volumes, stretching from the Earl of Strafford and Blind Jack Metcalf of Knaresborough via Charlotte Brontë and Sir Titus Salt (manufacturer, philanthropist...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Cornford
Cornford dedicated the book to the memory of her old friend and mentor,
Cornford, Frances. Collected Poems. Cresset Press.
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Sir Edward Marsh . She edited the book's contents, collecting, and in some cases revising, all the poems I wish to...
Publishing Dinah Mulock Craik
Dinah Mulock implicitly attacked Elizabeth Gaskell 's Life of Charlotte Brontë in Literary Ghouls for Chambers's.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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