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.
Etching of Charlotte Brontë after a portrait by George Richmond, 1850. She is seen from the waist up, seated, with one elbow resting on a table, that hand holding a small book and the other on her lap, holding a handkerchief. She wears a flat ribbon round her neck, and a dark dress, buttoned in front, with lace trim on the sleeves and bodice. Her dark, smooth hair is pulled back and tied with a dark ribbon.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 John Oliver Hobbes
Pearl Richards (later JOH ) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...
Intertextuality and Influence E. Nesbit
EN writes more of female sexuality in this novel than anywhere else, using images of imprisonment to express her sense of what it meant to be a woman in a world dominated by men.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Intertextuality and Influence Julia Kavanagh
Scholars agree that JK 's Nathalie in turn influenced Brontë 's Villette, which was published three years later. Some note a particular resemblance between JK 's Nathalie and Brontë's Lucy Snowe.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Shirley Foster ...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Brontë
Critic Elizabeth Langland credits AB 's first novel as one of the first by a woman to tell a humble, domestic story and to discover the techniques by which it could win an audience. The...
Intertextuality and Influence Amy Levy
In this, an early example of the New Woman novel, the orphaned sisters, left poor by their father's extravagance, set out to support themselves by running their own firm; in the end, however, they get...
Leisure and Society Charlotte Guest
Lady CG enjoyed cultured activities like the theatre and the opera throughout her life. Reading Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë in December 1850 she thought it singular . . . written with force but coarseness, and not of...
Leisure and Society Emily Brontë
During childhood and early adulthood the Brontë siblings produced elaborate fantasy worlds, which they acted out as plays, in part with toy figures. These worlds came to have individualized personae, geographies, and histories, which...
Literary responses Matilda Betham-Edwards
Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane...
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
This novel was not as successful as JK 's earlier efforts. Charlotte Brontë confided to William Smith Williams , I have tried to read Daisy Burns; at the close of the 1st Vol. I...
Literary responses Anne Brontë
The novel was reviewed immediately by The Spectator and the Athenæum. The former accused the author of a morbid love for the coarse, not to say the brutal, and objected to the coarseness of...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Most reviews of North and South were positive, athough some criticized EG for what they saw as inaccuracies in her portrayal of northern industrial life. Chorley in the Athenæum called this one of the best...
Literary responses Matilda Betham-Edwards
The Athenæum review by Lena Eden professed itself disgusted not so much by Dr Jacob's hypocritical and despicable character as by his gall in presuming to set himself up as a hero at an age...
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
Charlotte Brontë told Williams that she read this work with gratification and found that Kavanagh's charity and (on the whole) her impartiality are very beautiful.
Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press.
III: 326
Though pleased with the work as a whole...
Literary responses Annie Tinsley
The story was thought, however, to derive from other books, both from Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin and from Charlotte Brontë 's Villette. In an Advertisement to her next, anonymous novel, AT

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