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 | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
left unpublished a number of personal writings. They include an essay on the cage birds she kept, written in 1886, and several vehement Brontësque
outpourings about her deafness and other troubles. Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, and Charlotte Grace O’Brien. “Introductory Memoir”. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Maunsel, 1909, pp. 3-135. 132 |
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 | Edna O'Brien | EOB
has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen
, Emily Dickinson
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Anna Akhmatova
, Anita Brookner
, and Margaret Atwood
, adding: Every... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Kavanagh | 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. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press, 1980, 4 vols. II: 182 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | 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... |
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 | Margaret Oliphant | Both Charlotte Brontë
and Charles Dickens
mentioned the appearance of this novel in their letters. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 12 |
Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | Later reviewers have linked the confessional theme and High Church tendencies Parkes, Bessie Rayner. In a Walled Garden. Third, Ward and Downey, 1896. 104 |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | Nathalie was praised by JK
's fellow novelist Katharine S. Macquoid
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. qtd. in Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28. 214 |
Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent
, who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly... |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | Although MB
was commended for the accuracy of her historical settings in her crime novels, Mary Jean deMarr
points out that she was also faulted for unbelievable reversals and obstrusive symbolism. However, deMarr finds her... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | This novel was not as successful as JK
's earlier efforts. Charlotte Brontë
confided to William Smith Williams
, I have tried to read Daisy Burns; at the close of the 1st Vol. I... |
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