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 Production | May Sinclair | |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | By 1912 VW
had published on Margaret Cavendish
(as Duchess of Newcastle), Ann, Lady Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Carter
, Anna Seward
, Elizabeth, Lady Holland
, Maria Edgeworth
, Lady Hester Stanhope
, theBrontë |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | Immediately after the death of her friend Charlotte Brontë
on 31 March 1855, EG
began gathering details of her life and death, and planning to write a book to make people honour the woman as... |
Textual Production | Willa Cather | In the 1920s WC
was working for a maximum of three hours a day, banishing her work from her mind during the rest of day, but keeping herself fresh for it. She said her only... |
Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
Textual Production | Emma Frances Brooke | It seems that EFB
began writing seriously for financial reasons after her sudden loss of fortune and her move south to Hampstead in London in 1879. Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press. 163 Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 2, pp. 153-68. 156-7 |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's novel White Violets, or, Great Powers, which she wrote in 1909 (just after the first unexpurgated appearance of Elizabeth Gaskell
's life of Charlotte Brontë
), remained unpublished, for reasons that are... |
Textual Production | Emma Jane Worboise | EJW
published her purified and evangelicalized reworking of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre under the title Thornycroft Hall: Its Owners and its Heirs. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1940 (1864): 893 Jay, Elisabeth. The Religion of the Heart: Anglican Evangelicalism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Clarendon Press. 246 |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | In 1943 AH
had a hand in writing the filmscript for Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 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... |
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