“... daughter in the way of an advantageous marriage; the March sisters’ Pickwick Club resembles the Brontë family’s collaboration; Amy’s throwing Jo’s novel on the fire in revenge recalls Hedda Gabler’s disposal of her ex’s manuscript. But there are still places it can’t go. Gerwig’s version, faithful in the violet dresses she puts on Meg, the ...”

“... readable – and haunting – as the stories of Walter De La Mare, say, or as Emily Brontë. Secondly, it is a reflection on the largest public event in Broch’s life – the takeover of Germany and Austria by the Nazis, heralding their attempt to conquer the world, using ‘crowd-psychology’. Thirdly, it is uncompleted, though it may not ...”

“... in a sense, they became themselves. A process especially important for women writers. Emily Brontë was in her own way a self-dramatiser, Charlotte a self-esteemer. Her example was easier to follow, much more influential. When Aurora Leigh was published in 1857, reviewers pointed out a striking resemblance to much in the plot of Jane Eyre. Romney ...”

“... down, or squatted in the bottom and made water so that it ran out’ – or, like Emily Brontë, discharging her pistol out of a bedroom window: ‘The report was tremendous. It bounded out of my hand, forced itself thro’ the window, and broke the lead and 2 panes of glass. My hand felt stunned for some time.’ Her ability to put us ‘on the ...”

“... she picks on the usually neglected Barry Lyndon. Hardy is on less good terms with Charlotte Brontë, a writer whom she seems to think rather too determined in her analyses of feeling (Brontë rarely uses ‘the topos of inexpressibility’). The Eliot chapter for half its length deals with allegory in the novels. The ...”

“... too soon, seeing what the author would be at. This is where Dickens scores so heavily, and Emily Brontë. Who shall say whether Quilp and Little Nell are really one and the same person, two aspects of Dickens himself, the ogre and the orphan? Dickens loved to be both victim and executioner, as he would probably have been revealed in Edwin Drood, in which, as ...”

“... Did Paul Emanuel survive the storm and return to marry Lucy Snowe? Or was he drowned? Charlotte Brontë produces a subtle variation on the gross Thackerayan formula. The ‘kind heart’ and ‘sunny imagination’ is allowed to conceive ‘the delight of joy born again fresh out of great terror. Let them picture union and happy succeeding life.’ But Lucy ...”

“... is the emotion that drives Gwen John’s art. It is also the emotion that fuelled Charlotte Brontë’s writing. She fell passionately in love with her teacher, Monsieur Héger, when she studied at his language school in Brussels. When she returned home, his wife intervened to stop the exchange of letters between her husband and his infatuated English ...”

“... or pseudonyms. But in this regard, too, Jay contends, the example of George Eliot (or Charlotte Brontë) is misleading. Though Oliphant did begin by conventionally screening her identity – first as the fictional autobiographer and then as the author of Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland – she had no sooner moved, after only a few years, to the ...”

“... to posts. So there on the shelf, awaiting their reviewer, sit A Structuralist Reading of Charlotte Brontë, Deconstruction and D.H. Lawrence, and the rest of them. A writer in the American magazine Commentary, Michael Vannoy Adams, gives this account of some of the arguments in Gerald Graff’s anti-deconstructionist philippic, Literature Against Itself: The ...”

“... but modelled her first literary efforts ‘chiefly upon Jane Eyre’ and believed that Charlotte Brontë was the most passionate Victorian novelist. Braddon also enjoyed the popular fiction in penny magazines and was a ‘genuine enthusiast’ of French fiction, especially Balzac, Flaubert and Zola. When the Braddons urgently needed money, she turned to the ...”

“... as highbrow are reduced to their covers, or to a combination of fan fiction conventions (‘Ms Brontë CREATED every single one of my favourite tropes’). The community is always preparing for battle with the intellectual snob brigade. A recent TikTok by a moody-looking teenager calling herself @ratparade with the text ‘you are on the colleen hoover ...”

“... in Nancy Armstrong’s Foucauldian Desire and Domestic Fiction (1987): On my way to the annual Brontë conference at the University of Leeds in 1981, I decided to test a hypothesis. The conference that year was concerned with the Brontës’ relationship to their historical context. In writing my own paper for the event, I had already grown dissatisfied ...”

“... What constitutes an American writer’s landscape? In Great Britain it’s common to refer to ‘Brontë country’ or ‘Hardy country’. The Lake District belongs to Wordsworth more than to any landowner. But ‘Hemingway country’? He lived in at least thirty parts of the United States, not to mention Cuba, Paris and the Riviera ...”

“... other woman writers who have set themselves a similar task, even if, as in the case of Charlotte Brontë, they do not quite realise that this is the task they have set themselves. Here is Mr Rochester, making a guest-appearance in ‘The Salt of the Earth’: He murmured something under his breath, and bent his lips towards her. But she twisted out of his ...”