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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she... |
Textual Features | Flora Macdonald Mayor | While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4223 (9 March 1984): 238 |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
was visited by Charlotte Brontë
at her home in Ambleside. Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235. xxii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Brontë
's publisher, Smith, Elder and Co.
, rejected HM
's pro-Catholic
novel entitled Oliver Weld, which Charlotte had persuaded her friend to write because of her admiration for Deerbrook. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 382 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 692 |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Brontë
first met HM
in person in December 1849, after pseudonymously contacting her by letter the month before. The ensuing friendship was marked by admiration and sympathy on both sides. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 323-8 |
Cultural formation | Harriet Martineau | In a letter to Charlotte Brontë
, HM
expressed her views thus: I cannot conceive the absence of a First Cause; but then I contend that it is not a person, i. e. that it... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The novel prompted a complimentary letter on 7 November 1849 from Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë
) saying that in it he tasted a new and keen pleasure, and experienced a genuine benefit. In his... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Among her subjects are Lady Byron
(an occasion for HM
to deplore Byron
's conduct and influence), Mary Berry
, Mary Russell Mitford
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Marcet
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Somerville |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | These collections supply parts of HM
's correspondence with Matthew Arnold
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
, John Chapman
, Maria Weston Chapman
, Anne Jemima Clough
, Samuel Courtauld
, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | It was presumably the lightning that made Charlotte Brontë
fear a charge of plagiarism when she read the tale following the publication of Jane Eyre. Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Editor Shelston, Alan, Penguin. 509 |
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... |
Literary responses | Hannah Lynch | Blackwood's Magazine introduced the serialization of this book with a half-promise of its being a clef: It is, we believe, the faithful narrative of an actual experience, the work of a powerful writer whose identity... |
Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 3 |
Residence | Anne Lister | |
Fictionalization | Anne Lister | AL
, whose history and character were known across a wide district around her home, is said to have been the model for Captain Keeldar, the male aspect of the heroine in Charlotte Brontë
's Shirley, 1849. Birch, Dinah. “Grubbling”. London Review of Books, pp. 10-11. 11 |
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