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 | 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 | Liz Lochhead | Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 3 |
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]... |
Textual Features | Mary Ann Kelty | This is a novel of two generations, each part of which seems to contain a faint foreshadowing of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre. It traces the personal and family experience of Catherine Dorrington, who... |
Residence | Anne Lister | |
Reception | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
, whose works sold very well, was regarded as a major female author during the mid-Victorian period. She was incensed when in 1882 some one wrote a sketch of her life, and requested her... |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | Announcement of the second edition of EG
's The Life of Charlotte Brontë produced a threat from Lady Scott
's solicitors of a libel suit unless the publishers
withdrew all mention of their client and publicly apologized. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 426-7 |
Reception | Anne Marsh | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes AM
's very high contemporary reputation. It cites the London Weekly Chronicle and Margaret Oliphant
each hailing her, in her heyday, as a leader among women novelists (though... |
Reception | Jean Plaidy | In 1991, JP
said of Mistress of Mellyn: This was the sort of book that I loved to write, because I had read so much of the BrontësCharlotte BrontëAnne Brontë
, over and over again, and... |
Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Reception | Emily Brontë | Not until after a larger selection of poems, heavily edited by Charlotte
, was included along with the biographical preface in the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, did EB
's poetry begin to receive... |
Reception | Anne Brontë | An anonymous reviewer of Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights in The Spectator for 18 December 1847 commented that the work of all three Charlotte BrontëEmily BrontëBrontë
s suffered from injudicious selection of the theme and matter. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 218 |
Reception | Mary Taylor | It appears that Miss Miles received very little critical response. As Juliet Barker
recently noted, it sank without a trace, perhaps because its belated publication (more than forty years after it was begun) meant that... |
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