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 | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | She followed it up in in her address of 10 January 1913 as President of the English Association
, published in pamphlet form as A Discourse on Modern Sibyls, as well as in From... |
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 | Phyllis Bentley | PB
published her first of five critical texts about the lives and works of the threeBrontësisters
, The Brontës. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. TLS Archive (19 July 1947): 362 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research. 27 |
Textual Production | Anne Brontë | Although some of the collaboratively produced juvenilia of the Brontë children is still extant, none has survived that was individually authored by AB
. Chitham, Edward. A Life of Anne Brontë. B. Blackwell. 5 |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
published a novel entitled Reader, I Married Him, bearing the date 2004. A commentator used the words flip and ironic Leatherbarrow, Linda. “How to write like: Michele Roberts”. Mslexia, No. 24, p. 47. 47 Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Leatherbarrow, Linda. “How to write like: Michele Roberts”. Mslexia, No. 24, p. 47. 47 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen
, Maria Edgeworth
,... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michèle Roberts | This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR
discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jessie Fothergill | Referring to the novel as more powerful and far more original than Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, Shirley, or Villette, she berates those critics who insist too exclusively upon its gloom, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | A. Mary F. Robinson | It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton. 13 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | She omits reviews from this collection, but provides readers with an opportunity to consider literary topics. The Translation of Poetry argues that because [i]n poetry the form of the thought is part of the thought... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | CB
included in her collection the well-known writers Hannah More
, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Sarah Trimmer
. Subjects of other sketches which also appeared separately included many of evangelical... |
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