Charlotte Brontë

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.

Charlotte Brontë 's poem We wove a web in childhood appears as epigraph, along with a sentence from Coleridge about the serpent as emblem of the imagination. Both web and serpent are ominous. This...

PB produces a cryptic comment on the popular notion of literary androgyny in Transvestism in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë. Belatedly, she says, she has realised that the most important question in the novels...

Palladian presents a thick weave of literary allusions. As its title implies, this novel is set in a country house dating back to the eighteenth century. Just as the title suggests the English...

Her critique of the Victorian family may have been inspired by Caroline Helstone's plight in Charlotte Brontë 's Shirley.FN writes that [d]aughters are their mothers' slaves . . . they are considered...

Ann Radcliffe 's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre have been cited as possible sources.

CGOB left unpublished a number of personal writings. They include an essay on the cage birds she kept, written in 1886, and several vehement Brontësque outpourings about her deafness and other troubles.

In this book a little girl who gets hold of Brontë 's Jane Eyre from the adult shelves and reads it in secret is felt to be doing a very unsuitable as well as a...

This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they...

EOB has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen , Emily Dickinson , Elizabeth Bowen , Anna Akhmatova , Anita Brookner , and Margaret Atwood , adding: Every...

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...

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...

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...

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. Carey revealed in this...

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...