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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The poem relates in Aurora's first-person blank-verse narrative the story of her childhood and young adulthood. The child of an English father and Italian mother, orphaned young and brought up as a member of the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Bridge | At about twelve Mary Anne Sanders (later AB
) was meeting eminent scholars at dinner, because her businessman father, who had to leave the house early in the morning, insisted against convention on even his... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | Much feminist interest in the novel has centered on the relationship between Felix and Esther Lyon and the novel's treatment of the relationship between women and the public sphere. The book is in many ways... |
| 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, 1987. 192 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Charlotte Bury | Edward Copeland
thinks that this is the most challenging of LCB
's novels because of the complex interrelationship, in Delamere, between aristocratic pastimes, the arts, and the Whig aristocracy. He sees the amateur theatricals as... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Jane Worboise | Each chapter begins with a religious epigraph. This novel recounts the story of the attractive nineteen-year-old bride, Lilian Grey, who makes a marriage above her social class with the aristocratic Basil Hope. Worboise, Emma Jane. The Wife’s Trials; Married Life; Husbands and Wives. Garland, 1976. Wife's Trials: 1-3, 9 |
| Leisure and Society | Emily Brontë | During childhood and early adulthood the Brontë siblings produced elaborate fantasy worlds, which they acted out as plays, in part with toy figures. These worlds came to have individualized personae, geographies, and histories, which... |
| Leisure and Society | Charlotte Guest | Lady CG
enjoyed cultured activities like the theatre and the opera throughout her life. Reading Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
in December 1850 she thought it singular . . . written with force but coarseness, and not of... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | GE
began to be remembered quite inaccurately as a humourless and self-righteous preacher, to whom invention was less important than exhortation. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995. xix Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 362 |
| Literary responses | Lettice Cooper | Like Cooper's previous book, this too netted a flattering comparison to a nineteenth-century woman writer. Richard Church
in John O'London's likened it to Charlotte Brontë
's Villette. Cooper, Lettice. Fenny. Gollancz, 1968. inside dust-jacket |
| Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Reviewers greeted this novel with praise, drawing parallels with Brontë
's Jane Eyre and Du Maurier
's Rebecca. Alex Stuart
in John O' London's noted its utterly compulsive, drug-like, addictive quality. Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert: "Queen of Romantic Suspense". http://members.tripod.com/jeanplaidy/index.htm. |
| Literary responses | Hesba Stretton | Calling the novel an offspring of a bold imagination, the Athenæum comments that it is written without labour or spurious ornament, and that certain scenes are very well described. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2046 (1867): 44 |
| Literary responses | Annie Tinsley | The story was thought, however, to derive from other books, both from Harriet Beecher Stowe
's Uncle Tom's Cabin and from Charlotte Brontë
's Villette. In an Advertisement to her next, anonymous novel, AT |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | In a later generation Anna Letitia Barbauld
followed Hertford and Carter in celebrating ESR
her in poetry. Such different figures as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and Clara Reeve
endorsed her. She had a huge following... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | Brontë
also indulged in assumptions about gender and class in her reading of the critique. She wrote: I read The Quarterly without a pang, except that I thought there were some sentences disgraceful to the... |
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