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.
Etching of Charlotte Brontë after a portrait by George Richmond, 1850. She is seen from the waist up, seated, with one elbow resting on a table, that hand holding a small book and the other on her lap, holding a handkerchief. She wears a flat ribbon round her neck, and a dark dress, buttoned in front, with lace trim on the sleeves and bodice. Her dark, smooth hair is pulled back and tied with a dark ribbon.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Zoë Fairbairns
The anonymous Times Literary Supplement piece was mixed. Though it judged this first book predictable, it did insinuate a comparison to Brontë 's Jane Eyre, and commended the appealingly honest and perceptive treatment of...
Intertextuality and Influence U. A. Fanthorpe
With this volume, says UAF , I entered the different world of S. Martin's, Lancaster, and of France; and I was just beginning to have things to say about the condition of women...
Intertextuality and Influence Elaine Feinstein
Mirror Talk asks: Is that my mother now behind the glass, looking / dark-eyed and weary, as if doubting / whether I can be trusted to count pills . . . .
Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet.
5
But not...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
Education Margaret Forster
As a very small child MF was noisy and demanding and given to tantrums.
Forster, Margaret. Hidden Lives. Viking.
121-2
At two she talked in long sentences . . . and never stopped asking questions and wanting to try to...
Literary responses Jessie Fothergill
The Spectator reviewer admitted to surprise at this novel, since whereas The First Violin and Probation were clever and interesting, it found little, if anything, in them to lead us to expect that their author...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jessie Fothergill
Referring to the novel as more powerful and far more original than Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre, Shirley, or Villette, she berates those critics who insist too exclusively upon its gloom, and...
Intertextuality and Influence Julia Frankau
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...
Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
Later reviewers have linked the confessional theme and High Church tendencies
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. In a Walled Garden. Ward and Downey.
104
of Ellen Middleton to its author's own conversion to Catholicism in 1846, two years after its publication. The Catholic World, for instance...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men
Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton.
13
who have been interested in him: she moves on to the use of his imagery by Charlotte Brontë , Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
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
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Gaskell
Amidst scandal, and after months of revisions, EG published her third edition of The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
431, 443-4
Author summary Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell , one of the foremost fiction-writers of the mid-Victorian period, produced a corpus of seven novels, numerous short stories, and a controversial biography of Charlotte Brontë . She wrote extensively for periodicals, as...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Gaskell
In August 1850, Charlotte Brontë and EG finally met at Gawthorpe Hall, near Burnley, home of Sir James Philips Kay-Shuttleworth . They had first corresponded a year previously, when Charlotte sent Elizabeth the manuscript...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Gaskell
EG met novelist Charlotte Brontë at the home of Sir James and Lady Kay-Shuttleworth in the Lake District. On 27 June 1851 Brontë visited Gaskell at her home in Manchester; this was the...

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