Charlotte Brontë

SW puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting...

JR 's Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre; it presents a significantly different perspective on the characters met in Brontë 's novel. The character Jane Eyre never appears at all, and...

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

Exploiting the style of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre, BC published a novel entitled The Poor Governess.

This tie broadens the social scope of the novel. Karl is Jewish but not an observant Jew. He wishes he could believe in Christianity for its redeeming message and wants to extend that choice to...

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.

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...

Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue and first-person narration as Jane attempts...

This novel moves deeper into the spare but striking presentation of childhood cruelty and suffering. Edmund Hooper, whose mother is dead, lives alone with his father in a gloomy and lonely house on the outskirts...

The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...

MR claims to have been astonished when she found she had written a bloody corpse in the opening chapter again! The plot concerns two sisters who both love the same man, Adam, a charismatic...

In The Sweet Dove DiedBP deals with male homosexual relationships in connection with problems experienced by single women in their fifties. The name of the central character, Leonora Eyre, suggests Beethoven 's Leonora overtures...

EN writes more of female sexuality in this novel than anywhere else, using images of imprisonment to express her sense of what it meant to be a woman in a world dominated by men.

Pearl Richards (later JOH ) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...

Scholars agree that JK 's Nathalie in turn influenced Brontë 's Villette, which was published three years later. Some note a particular resemblance between JK 's Nathalie and Brontë's Lucy Snowe.Shirley Foster ...