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
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
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Taylor
MT 's father, Joshua Taylor , came from a wool-trading family based in the West Riding of Yorkshire; he often travelled to the Continent on business and was fluent in French and Italian. He...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Taylor
Palladian presents a thick weave of literary allusions.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
161-2
Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne.
10
As its title implies, this novel is set in a country house dating back to the eighteenth century. Just as the title suggests the English...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Taylor
MT 's mother, Anne (Tickell) Taylor , has been described as a cold, Calvinistic chapel-goer
Murray, Janet Horowitz, and Mary Taylor. “Introduction”. Miss Miles; or, A Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxiv.
viii
and appears as an ungenial matron
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press.
4
in Charlotte Brontë 's Shirley. Mary and her mother did not...
Friends, Associates Mary Taylor
MT met Charlotte Brontë and Ellen Nussey at Miss Wooler's school; they became lifelong friends.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press.
1, 9, 13
Friends, Associates Mary Taylor
Mary's descriptions of life abroad provided Charlotte Brontë with what she described as a wish for wings,
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press.
22
and MT successfully urged her and her sister Emily to pursue their studies in Brussels; they...
Literary responses Hesba Stretton
Calling the novel an offspring of a bold imagination, the Athenæum comments that it is written without labour or spurious ornament, and that certain scenes are very well described.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2046 (1867): 44
Other reviewers compared...
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.
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Literary responses Emily Spender
The Athenæum reviewer, Almaric Rumsey , guessed the novelist's gender from the use of the bigamy motif, which he felt to be obviously derivative from more talented novelists (Wilkie Collins 's recently published The...
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...
Textual Production May Sinclair
The first of MS 's introductions to the Everyman's Library reprints of the BrontëAnne BrontëEmily Brontë sisters' novels, the one to Wuthering Heights, was published.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Textual Production May Sinclair
MS published The Three Brontës, a critical and interpretive essay assessing Charlotte , Anne , and Emily as people and as artists.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Intertextuality and Influence May Sinclair
MS 's The Three Sisters appeared: a psychological/psychoanalytical novel which, although the sisters in question are not the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë , seems to take its setting from that of their lives.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
108, 225-6
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Sigerson
She had met him through Katharine Tynan, and they became engaged in September 1895 after a long courtship. Their loving marriage lasted the rest of Dora's life. They never had children.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
240
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Shorter worked for...
Education Penelope Shuttle
Some sources say that PS attended a secondary modern school in Staines (that is one with non-academic aims and expectations). But attendance at a private school is strongly implied by her poem about a girls'...

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