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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Performance of text | Elizabeth Goudge | The first of EG
's plays to be professionally staged, TheBrontësofHaworth, opened at the Charta Theatre
in London. “Elizabeth Goudge Books”. Anglophile Books: British women authors. |
Performance of text | Clemence Dane | CD
's Wild Decembers, based on the lives of the BrontëEmily BrontëAnne BrontëBranwell Brontë
family, had its first performance, at the Apollo Theatre
, London. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 133 Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press. 100 |
Occupation | Sydney Thompson Dobell | |
Occupation | Robert Southey | RS
's popular success as a poet and his position as Poet Laureate from 1813 caused aspiring authors to seek him out for advice. He famously advised Charlotte Brontë
, [l]iterature cannot be the business... |
Occupation | Alice Meynell | As well as reading her own poetry, she lectured about the transition of English poetry from the seventeenth century to the eighteenth century, and on Charlotte Brontë
and Dickens
. She earned the lowly sum... |
Occupation | Mary Taylor | Though sad to see her friend emigrate, Charlotte Brontë
understood Mary's motivation: Mary has made up her mind that she can not and will not be a governess, a teacher, a milliner, a bonnetmaker nor... |
names | Mary Taylor | Charlotte Brontë
gave her these three nicknames. Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press. 14 |
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 |
Literary Setting | Olive Schreiner | Cherry Clayton
believes the novel's fictional English setting, Greenwood, was influenced by the English landscapes in the works of Hardy
, George Eliot
, and the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë
. Schreiner herself had not yet been to... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane... |
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... |
Literary responses | Anne Brontë | The novel was reviewed immediately by The Spectator and the Athenæum. The former accused the author of a morbid love for the coarse, not to say the brutal, and objected to the coarseness of... |
Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | The Athenæum review by Lena Eden
professed itself disgusted not so much by Dr Jacob's hypocritical and despicable character as by his gall in presuming to set himself up as a hero at an age... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë
told Williams
that she read this work with gratification and found that Kavanagh's charity and (on the whole) her impartiality are very beautiful. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. III: 326 |
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