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 Features | Jane Austen | The plot of this novel is a version of a romance archetype: poor but deserving girl confounds all expectations by marrying up. Elizabeth Bennet is the quintessence of the witty and resourceful heroine who had... |
Textual Features | Violet Hunt | Through this novel, VH
reconfigures the conventional governess narrative through the character, perceptions, and experiences of her heroine, Amy Steevens. Hunt, Violet. White Rose of Weary Leaf. W. Heinemann. 9 |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | AR
's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Norton. 51 |
Textual Features | Ruby M. Ayres | Dark Gentleman carries an unascribed epigraph from Caroline Norton
: Until I truly loved—I was alone. Ayres, Ruby M. Dark Gentleman. Hodder and Stoughton. title-page |
Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | Carol Watts
notes the influence of two writers in particular on this volume. As she suggests, Miriam's personal and creative journey begins with a departure, as does Lucy Snowe's in Charlotte Brontë
's Villette... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Robins | It presents, in a light and humorous tone, three models of writing women: Charlotte Brontë
as a genius of the past, speaking from beyond the grave (or perhaps being fraudulently made to speak); a Victorian... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Mew | The essay treats works by women writers, such as Anne Thackeray Ritchie
's The Village on the Cliff and Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre and Villette, alongside works by men. |
Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman, Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 3 |
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 | Mary Ann Kelty | This is a novel of two generations, each part of which seems to contain a faint foreshadowing of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre. It traces the personal and family experience of Catherine Dorrington, who... |
Textual Features | Dorothy L. Sayers | Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened... |
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... |
Textual Features | Mona Caird | The protagonist of this novel, Victoria Sedley, has early thoughts about her status as a separate self, which critic Patricia Murphy calls Cartes
ian, but she later grows up into the confines of a woman's... |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 133, 152 |
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