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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 1980, 4 vols. III: 326 |
| Literary responses | George Sand | Charlotte Brontë
, signing as C. Bell, expressed to G. H. Lewes
both praise and criticism for GS
: It is poetry, as I comprehend the word, which elevates that masculine George Sand, and... |
| Literary responses | Lettice Cooper | Like Cooper's previous book, this too netted a flattering comparison to a nineteenth-century woman writer. Richard Church
in John O'London's likened it to Charlotte Brontë
's Villette. Cooper, Lettice. Fenny. Gollancz, 1968. inside dust-jacket |
| Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Reviewers greeted this novel with praise, drawing parallels with Brontë
's Jane Eyre and Du Maurier
's Rebecca. Alex Stuart
in John O' London's noted its utterly compulsive, drug-like, addictive quality. Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert: "Queen of Romantic Suspense". http://members.tripod.com/jeanplaidy/index.htm. |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | GE
began to be remembered quite inaccurately as a humourless and self-righteous preacher, to whom invention was less important than exhortation. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995. xix Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 362 |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Hesba Stretton | Calling the novel an offspring of a bold imagination, the Athenæum comments that it is written without labour or spurious ornament, and that certain scenes are very well described. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2046 (1867): 44 |
| Literary responses | Patricia Beer | Responses to PB
's poetry have varied widely, even among her fellow poets. Jeni Couzyn
has charged her with the crime of not rocking the boat, of making herself a favourite . . . for... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | In a later generation Anna Letitia Barbauld
followed Hertford and Carter in celebrating ESR
her in poetry. Such different figures as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and Clara Reeve
endorsed her. She had a huge following... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | Brontë
also indulged in assumptions about gender and class in her reading of the critique. She wrote: I read The Quarterly without a pang, except that I thought there were some sentences disgraceful to the... |
| Literary responses | Zoë Fairbairns | The anonymous Times Literary Supplement piece was mixed. Though it judged this first book predictable, it did insinuate a comparison to Brontë
's Jane Eyre, and commended the appealingly honest and perceptive treatment of... |
| Literary responses | Emily Spender | The Athenæum reviewer, Almaric Rumsey
, guessed the novelist's gender from the use of the bigamy motif, which he felt to be obviously derivative from more talented novelists (Wilkie Collins
's recently published The... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | Both Charlotte Brontë
and Charles Dickens
mentioned the appearance of this novel in their letters. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 12 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | The young Virginia Stephen
(usually a reviewer hard to please) praised this book warmly: few living novelists are so genuinely gifted as Miss Robins, or can produce work to match hers for strength and sincerity... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Charlotte Brontë
wrote to CG
to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life. qtd. in Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 129 |
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