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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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 |
Friends, Associates | Julia Kavanagh | JK
(by this time herself a published author) wrote a letter to Charlotte Brontë
in praise of Jane Eyre. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. II: 173 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Stickney Ellis | Among her few writing friends were Mary Howitt
and her relations by marriage Mary
and Anna Sewell
. She greatly admired without personally knowing Elizabeth Fry
, and felt a personal connection to Charlotte Brontë |
Friends, Associates | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë
called on JK
at her home in London. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. III: 118 |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
was visited by Charlotte Brontë
at her home in Ambleside. Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235. xxii |
Friends, Associates | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë
noted that while JK
admired the work, she considered the Maniac Mrs Rochester to be shocking. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press. II: 173 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | In August 1850, Charlotte Brontë
and EG
finally met at Gawthorpe Hall, near Burnley, home of Sir James Philips Kay-Shuttleworth
. They had first corresponded a year previously, when Charlotte sent Elizabeth the manuscript... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Brontë
first met HM
in person in December 1849, after pseudonymously contacting her by letter the month before. The ensuing friendship was marked by admiration and sympathy on both sides. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 323-8 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
met novelist Charlotte Brontë
at the home of Sir James
and Lady Kay-Shuttleworth
in the Lake District. On 27 June 1851 Brontë visited Gaskell at her home in Manchester; this was the... |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
Friends, Associates | Matthew Arnold | MA
was acquainted with Charlotte Brontë
and wrote a poem dedicated to her following her death. He also knew Rhoda Broughton
, Emily Davies
, and Harriet Martineau
. |
Health | Margiad Evans | As a child of about three she had terrible nightmares about people (nuns) who were running away from something, on fire and dying. She had dreadful dreams again at about seventeen, and then a recurrent... |
Health | Emily Brontë | EB
apparently had a very independent character. In a famous incident related to Elizabeth Gaskell
by Charlotte
, Emily tried to help a possibly rabid dog, only to have it bite her. She immediately went... |
Health | Dora Carrington | Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 271-2 |
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