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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC
as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same... |
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 |
Textual Production | Angela Carter | She also wrote introductions to works by various writers and artists, including Walter De la Mare
, Christina Stead
, Gilbert Hernandez
, Frida Kahlo
, and Charlotte Brontë
. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press. 172-3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Cartland | Exploiting the style of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre, BC
published a novel entitled The Poor Governess. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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... |
Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 213-28. 214 |
Education | Agatha Christie | By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller
believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll |
Education | Kate Clanchy | As a child KC
loved Victorian stories for girls—Frances Hodgson Burnett
's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
(or Susan Coolidge)'s What Katy Did, and Louisa May Alcott |
Textual Features | Caroline Clive | In a preface CC
addresses criticism of her previous work, Paul Ferroll. She writes: The opinions of the Public are like Fate. An Author may loudly declare them unjust, but he does not alter... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | While Charlotte Brontë
, MEC
argues, swept the world away in the storm of her passion and George Eliotconquered it with the power of understanding, [Elizabeth] Gaskell
forced it to weep for pity [and]... |
Textual Features | Lettice Cooper | Cooper's eight lives form a more varied selection than those of her companion volumes, stretching from the Earl of Strafford
and Blind Jack Metcalf
of Knaresborough via Charlotte Brontë
and Sir Titus Salt
(manufacturer, philanthropist... |
Literary responses | Lettice Cooper | Like Cooper's previous book, this too netted a flattering comparison to a nineteenth-century woman writer. Richard Church
in John O'London's likened it to Charlotte Brontë
's Villette. Cooper, Lettice. Fenny. Gollancz. inside dust-jacket |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Cornford | Cornford dedicated the book to the memory of her old friend and mentor, Cornford, Frances. Collected Poems. Cresset Press. 5 |
Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
implicitly attacked Elizabeth Gaskell
's Life of Charlotte Brontë in Literary Ghouls for Chambers's. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 100, 129n7 |
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