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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Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | As a child SW
loved writing poems and stories, all entirely derivative from her reading of popular books like the Dr Who novelizations. In the sixth form at school she began to find the study... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Hill | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bentley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | 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. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 192 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Kavanagh | 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. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Brontë | Critic Elizabeth Langland credits AB
's first novel as one of the first by a woman to tell a humble, domestic story and to discover the techniques by which it could win an audience. The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | In this, an early example of the New Woman novel, the orphaned sisters, left poor by their father's extravagance, set out to support themselves by running their own firm; in the end, however, they get... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa May Alcott | |
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. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Catherine Hume | In the first section of the poem, the lord of Normiton Hall, Albert, is inspired to wed. His first choice is Maud, a woman who shares his philosophical interests. She declines however, since her faith... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | Her critique of the Victorian family may have been inspired by Caroline Helstone's plight in Charlotte Brontë
's Shirley. Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice. 77 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Rhys | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Sinclair | MS
's The Three Sisters appeared: a psychological/psychoanalytical novel which, although the sisters in question are not the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë
, seems to take its setting from that of their lives. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 108, 225-6 |
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