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 | Emily Brontë | EB
's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë
's Agnes Grey reappeared in a cheap, single volume with a heavily edited and annotated selection of poems and a biographical preface by Charlotte Brontë
. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 654-6 Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Wuthering Heights</span>; Extract from the Prefatory Note to ’Selections from Poems by Ellis Bell’”. Wuthering Heights, edited by Professor Ian Jack and Professor Ian Jack, Oxford University Press, pp. 359 - 65; 365. 365 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
published (using her own name for the first time) her influential and exhaustively researched The Life of Charlotte Brontë; initial reviews were positive, but the possibility of a libel suit brewed. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 424, 426 |
Textual Production | Mary Taylor | Joan Stevens
published a collection of MT
's surviving letters: Mary Taylor: Friend of Charlotte Brontë
; Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press. |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
Textual Production | Mary Taylor | MT
's writing is driven by passion for social change. After reading her friend Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, she responded: You are very different from me in having no doctrine to preach.... |
Textual Production | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe
's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to... |
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 | 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 |
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 | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
Textual Features | Barbara Pym | Several critics have noted the influence on this novel of Charlotte Brontë
. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 86-90 Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 41, 57 |
Textual Features | Anne Mozley | The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM
begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer... |
Textual Features | Phyllis Bentley | Set (like its successors) in the fictional valley of the Ire (based on the Colne Valley) in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Inheritance follows five generations of three families involved in the cloth... |
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