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.
Etching of Charlotte Brontë after a portrait by George Richmond, 1850. She is seen from the waist up, seated, with one elbow resting on a table, that hand holding a small book and the other on her lap, holding a handkerchief. She wears a flat ribbon round her neck, and a dark dress, buttoned in front, with lace trim on the sleeves and bodice. Her dark, smooth hair is pulled back and tied with a dark ribbon.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Violet Hunt
Through this novel, VH reconfigures the conventional governess narrative through the character, perceptions, and experiences of her heroine, Amy Steevens.
Hunt, Violet. White Rose of Weary Leaf. W. Heinemann.
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Though often compared to Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre for her intelligent self-reliance, Amy...
Textual Features Mary Taylor
In essence, Miss Miles presents and evaluates four case studies of young middle-class women struggling to earn and enjoy a living. Sarah's Aunt Jane details the obstacles facing working women: There's no decent way fit...
Textual Features Adrienne Rich
AR 's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience
Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Norton.
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became one of her most controversial and influential theories. Rejecting established definitions of lesbianism as pathology, she means to acknowledge the...
Textual Features Ruby M. Ayres
Dark Gentleman carries an unascribed epigraph from Caroline Norton : Until I truly loved—I was alone.
Ayres, Ruby M. Dark Gentleman. Hodder and Stoughton.
title-page
Its title is the name given by Judith Anson to Simon Trenchard, with whom at last she achieves...
Textual Features Dorothy Richardson
Carol Watts notes the influence of two writers in particular on this volume. As she suggests, Miriam's personal and creative journey begins with a departure, as does Lucy Snowe's in Charlotte Brontë 's Villette...
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 Mary Taylor
Originally intending to focus upon her subject's time in New Zealand, Stevens felt the need to contextualize MT 's position as an independent merchant in Wellington within the overall life of this spirited woman, and...
Textual Features Liz Lochhead
Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman,
Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books.
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the revue explores many facets of a woman's life, from her dramas, her traumas, and her fiascos to her fainting spasms; / the ins-and-outs of her...
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 Elizabeth Coleridge
While Charlotte Brontë , MEC argues, swept the world away in the storm of her passion and George Eliotconquered it with the power of understanding, [Elizabeth] Gaskell forced it to weep for pity [and]...
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...
Textual Features Eudora Welty
The word regional, said Welty, is careless, condescending, and an outsider's term; it has no meaning for the insider who is doing the writing.Jane Austen , theBrontësisters , and the writers...
Textual Features Dorothy L. Sayers
Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened...
Textual Features Lettice Cooper
Cooper's eight lives form a more varied selection than those of her companion volumes, stretching from the Earl of Strafford and Blind Jack Metcalf of Knaresborough via Charlotte Brontë and Sir Titus Salt (manufacturer, philanthropist...

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