Charlotte Brontë

In 1949 PB both arranged and introduced the six-volume Heather Edition of the Brontës' works, and supplied an introduction for an edition of Charlotte Brontë 's The Professor, which was published with poems and...

Joan Stevens published a collection of MT 's surviving letters: Mary Taylor: Friend of Charlotte Brontë ; Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere.

These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson

A letter from her publisher Newby in February 1848 suggests that EB had consulted him about the publication of another novel, then in progress. At the end of the year, he announced that another work...

An American edition appeared the same year. Commissioned to write the biography in 1882, AMFR conducted an ambitious research programme, including interviews with living friends of the literary sisters. Ellen Nussey , a friend...

It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion...

ML defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source. An ecstatic state is one in which...

Referring to the novel as more powerful and far more original than Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre, Shirley, or Villette, she berates those critics who insist too exclusively upon its gloom, and...

In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen , Maria Edgeworth ,...

The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan , William Lovett

CB included in her collection the well-known writers Hannah More , Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna , Anna Letitia Barbauld , and Sarah Trimmer . Subjects of other sketches which also appeared separately included many of evangelical...

Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men who have been interested in him: she moves on to the use of his imagery by Charlotte Brontë , Harriet Beecher Stowe ...

MO attacks the sensation novel, a genre of fiction which she judges to be low in subject-matter (especially in its handling of sexual material), low in class connotations, and associated chiefly with women. Her idea...

This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...

GE discounts the puffery that women authors receive from critics, claiming that praise of women's work is in inverse proportion to their ability: But if they are inclined to resent our plainness of speech, we...