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 | A. Mary F. Robinson | An American edition appeared the same year. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
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 | Michelene Wandor | MW
has specialized in adapting and abridging novels for radio. Between 1980 and 2004 she adapted a wide array of fiction by women writers, including works by Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
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 | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
Textual Production | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
produced a series of introductions to the Haworth edition of works by Charlotte
, Emily
, and Anne Brontë
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 231 |
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), remained unpublished, for reasons that are...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 | 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 Production | Emily Brontë | |
Textual Production | Mary Stewart | The fourth novel by MS
, Nine Coaches Waiting, was a governess novel, which has drawn comparisons with Daphne du Maurier
's Rebecca and Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2961 (28 November 1958): 684 Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers. 19 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
received a letter from Patrick Brontë
asking her to write his daughter Charlotte
's biography. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 392, 656n9 |
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