Charlotte Brontë

The poem relates in Aurora's first-person blank-verse narrative the story of her childhood and young adulthood. The child of an English father and Italian mother, orphaned young and brought up as a member of the...

Edward Copeland thinks that this is the most challenging of LCB 's novels because of the complex interrelationship, in Delamere, between aristocratic pastimes, the arts, and the Whig aristocracy. He sees the amateur theatricals as...

Each chapter begins with a religious epigraph. This novel recounts the story of the attractive nineteen-year-old bride, Lilian Grey, who makes a marriage above her social class with the aristocratic Basil Hope.

At about twelve Mary Anne Sanders (later AB ) was meeting eminent scholars at dinner, because her businessman father, who had to leave the house early in the morning, insisted against convention on even his...

Much feminist interest in the novel has centered on the relationship between Felix and Esther Lyon and the novel's treatment of the relationship between women and the public sphere. The book is in many ways...

Charlotte Brontë 's poem We wove a web in childhood appears as epigraph, along with a sentence from Coleridge about the serpent as emblem of the imagination. Both web and serpent are ominous. This...

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...

Palladian presents a thick weave of literary allusions. As its title implies, this novel is set in a country house dating back to the eighteenth century. Just as the title suggests the English...

Ann Radcliffe 's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre have been cited as possible sources.

In this book a little girl who gets hold of Brontë 's Jane Eyre from the adult shelves and reads it in secret is felt to be doing a very unsuitable as well as a...

This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they...

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.

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...

SG 's characters are amusing caricatures of socialites, intellectuals, and rustics. Flora's city friend, the modern young widow Mrs Smiling, for instance, has a large collection of suitors and an even larger collection of brassières...

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. Carey revealed in this...