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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marghanita Laski | 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. Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press, 1961. 5 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jessie Fothergill | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | 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
,... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michèle Roberts | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. 13 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Oliphant | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | George Eliot | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | These pieces convey vividly personal memories of people, places, and events from her childhood, and the impact her famous writer father had on her early life. She writes: my memory is a sort of Witches'... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anthony Trollope | The critical opinions he voices here are often cited. Chapter 13, entitled On English Novelists of the Present Day, gives first place to Thackeray
and second to George Eliot
. On her he voices... |
| Travel | Elizabeth Gaskell | Hereafter, Gaskell escaped from Manchester, which increasingly wearied her, by going abroad at least once a year. She spent that summer travelling through London, Wales, and then back to France, this time to... |
| Travel | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
, wearied from a long year spent writing her biography of Charlotte Brontë
, arrived in Rome for a holiday; she returned there several times in the next few years. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 415-17 |
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