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 Features | Violet Hunt | VH
modifies the gothic here to explore the psychological strains felt by sexually-frustrated women. Marie Secor
finds a Charlotte Brontë
-ish quality Secor, Marie. “Violet Hunt, Novelist: A Reintroduction”. English Literature in Transition, Vol. 19 , pp. 25-34. 27 |
Textual Features | Flora Macdonald Mayor | While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4223 (9 March 1984): 238 |
Textual Features | Jane Austen | The plot of this novel is a version of a romance archetype: poor but deserving girl confounds all expectations by marrying up. Elizabeth Bennet is the quintessence of the witty and resourceful heroine who had... |
Textual Features | Mary Taylor | In essence, Miss Miles presents and evaluates four case studies of young middle-class women struggling to earn and enjoy a living. Sarah's Aunt Jane details the obstacles facing working women: There's no decent way fit... |
Textual Features | Violet Hunt | Through this novel, VH
reconfigures the conventional governess narrative through the character, perceptions, and experiences of her heroine, Amy Steevens. Hunt, Violet. White Rose of Weary Leaf. W. Heinemann. 9 |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | AR
's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Norton. 51 |
Textual Features | Ruby M. Ayres | Dark Gentleman carries an unascribed epigraph from Caroline Norton
: Until I truly loved—I was alone. Ayres, Ruby M. Dark Gentleman. Hodder and Stoughton. title-page |
Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | Carol Watts
notes the influence of two writers in particular on this volume. As she suggests, Miriam's personal and creative journey begins with a departure, as does Lucy Snowe's in Charlotte Brontë
's Villette... |
Textual Features | Mary Taylor | Originally intending to focus upon her subject's time in New Zealand, Stevens felt the need to contextualize MT
's position as an independent merchant in Wellington within the overall life of this spirited woman, and... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Robins | It presents, in a light and humorous tone, three models of writing women: Charlotte Brontë
as a genius of the past, speaking from beyond the grave (or perhaps being fraudulently made to speak); a Victorian... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Mew | The essay treats works by women writers, such as Anne Thackeray Ritchie
's The Village on the Cliff and Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre and Villette, alongside works by men. |
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 | Liz Lochhead | Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 3 |
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]... |
Textual Features | Eudora Welty | The word regional, said Welty, is careless, condescending, and an outsider's term; it has no meaning for the insider who is doing the writing.Jane Austen
, theBrontësisters
, and the writers... |
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