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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Intertextuality and Influence Ada Cambridge
The Author's Introduction is followed by one hundred short poems divided into two sections, which variously treat the central themes of mortality, impermanence, or the saving grace of Christianity. The poems are predominantly but not...
Intertextuality and Influence Stella Gibbons
SG 's characters are amusing caricatures of socialites, intellectuals, and rustics. Flora's city friend, the modern young widow Mrs Smiling, for instance, has a large collection of suitors and an even larger collection of brassières...
Intertextuality and Influence L. T. Meade
The year must be one of the most emotionally eventful in the history of school stories. Hester gets off on the wrong foot with devil-may-care Annie Forest. (Annie's mother, too, is dead, having committed her...
Intertextuality and Influence Rosa Nouchette Carey
In an interview of 1893, Helen C. Black described RNC as tall, slender, and erect with large blue-grey eyes with long lashes,soft dark hair, and a low, tuneful voice.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren, 1906.
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Carey revealed in this...
Intertextuality and Influence Dinah Mulock Craik
This novel is influenced by Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre, and like much of DMC 's fiction it makes frequent allusion to a wide range of romantic and Victorian poets. Like Jane Eyre, its...
Intertextuality and Influence U. A. Fanthorpe
With this volume, says UAF , I entered the different world of S. Martin's, Lancaster, and of France; and I was just beginning to have things to say about the condition of women...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Kelty
She goes on to quote Johnson , Cowper , Emerson (with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher (a passage about communion...
Intertextuality and Influence Elaine Feinstein
Mirror Talk asks: Is that my mother now behind the glass, looking / dark-eyed and weary, as if doubting / whether I can be trusted to count pills . . . .
Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet, 2017.
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But not...
Intertextuality and Influence Phyllis Bentley
PB was deeply influenced by the Brontës , whose home at Haworth was close to where she herself grew up in Halifax. As a daydreaming child she strongly identified with the Brontës ' imaginary worlds...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Waters
As a child SW loved writing poems and stories, all entirely derivative from her reading of popular books like the Dr Who novelizations. In the sixth form at school she began to find the study...
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, 1973.
108, 225-6
Intertextuality and Influence Louisa May Alcott
LMA began writing while she was very young. At the age of ten she began a journal which was soon afterwards read and commented on by her mother . She was also a regular contributor...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Waters
SW puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting...
Intertextuality and Influence Jean Rhys
JR 's Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre; it presents a significantly different perspective on the characters met in Brontë 's novel. The character Jane Eyre never appears at all, and...
Intertextuality and Influence Beatrice Harraden
The child protagonist of Things Will Take a Turn, Rose (always called either Childie or Rosebud), has a grandfather who runs an unprofitable second-hand bookshop. She has read a lot and has (as well...

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