Brontë, Charlotte (1816 - 1855)
Last edited by Pia_vandeSchaft on March 3, 2025, 2:38 p.m.
| Short name | Brontë, Charlotte |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/71388025 |
| First name | Charlotte |
| Birth name | Brontë |
| Married name | |
| Alternative name | Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley — Currer Bell |
| Date of birth | 1816 |
| Date of death | 1855 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Thornton (Yorkshire) |
| Place of death | Haworth |
| Lived in | England |
| Place of residence notes |
| Mother | |
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| Father | |
| Children | |
| Religion / ideology | Protestant |
| Education | Educated at home, School education |
| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
| Nicholls, Arthur Bell | 1854-1855 |
Brontë, Charlotte was ...
| related to | Gaskell, Elizabeth |
| related to | Brontë, Emily |
| related to | Brontë, Anne |
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| Place(s) of Residence | England |
Author of
| receptions | circulations | |
|---|---|---|
| *Letters (1840~) | 1 | 0 |
*Reading experience (Austen) in letter
(1845)
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0 | 0 |
| Jane Eyre. An autobiography (1847) | 55 | 4 |
*Remarks on Austen and Sand
(1848)
|
0 | 0 |
| Shirley (1849) | 17 | 3 |
Biographical notice and Preface
(1850)
|
0 | 0 |
| *Fernanda (1851) | 1 | 0 |
Villette
(1853)
|
13 | 2 |
| The professor (1857) | 10 | 3 |
Editor of
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-Circulations of Brontë, Charlotte, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
| Title | Date | Type |
Receptions of Brontë, Charlotte, the person
For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.
| Title | Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| F.v.H., Currer Bell's Romane | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1850 | comments on person |
| Currer Bell | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1850 | comments on person |
| Currer Bell's Romane | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1850 | comments on person |
| *Art. on: Susanna Maria Boëseken: Hillegonde, […] | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1853 | - |
| Die Verfasserin von Jane Eyre | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1855 | comments on person |
| Silly Novels by Lady Novelists | Eliot, George (pseudonym) | 1856 | - |
| Charlotte Brontë | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1857 | - |
| The life of Charlotte Brontë | Gaskell, Elizabeth | 1857 | is biography of |
| *Art. Charlotte Bronté [sic] | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1857 | comments on person |
| Currer Bell – Charlotte Brontë | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1858 | comments on person |
| Nachfolgerinnen der Currer Bell | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1860 | comments on person |
| *Mention of Ch.Bronte in Art. in de Gids | Busken Huet, Conrad | 1863 | - |
| *Mention in Art. in Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen | P.A. de Bruijn | 1868 | - |
| Slovensko gledališče Slovenian Theater | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1876 | - |
| *Mention in Art. in De Gids *Mention in Art. in De Gids | Boissevain, Charles | 1877 | - |
| *Mention in Art. in De Gids | Pierson, Allard | 1878 | - |
| Nieuw Engelsch Proza | Eeden, Frederik van | 1891 | - |
| Mulheres: Ensaio de Psicologia Feminina | Maria Cláudia de Campos, | 1895 | - |
| Mnogoženstvo in enoženstvo Polygamy and monogamy | Garrigue Masaryk, Tomáš | 1899 | - |
| *no title [???] | Bing, Just | 1906 | - |
| Lowoodska sirota The Orphan of Lowood | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1912 | - |
| Tre søstre (three sisters) | Undset, Sigrid | 1917 | comments on person |
| Women Novelists | Woolf, Virginia | 1918 | - |
| *The Intellectual Status of Women | Woolf, Virginia | 1920 | - |
| Džordž Eliot (George Eliot) | Sekulić, Isidora | 1926 | - |
| De drie gezusters Bronte The three Brontë sisters | Jeanne Reyneke van Stuwe | 1935 | comments on person |
| Vrouwenspiegel: een literair-sociologische studie over de Nederlandse romanschrijfster na 1880 | Romein Verschoor, Annie | 1936 | comments on person |
| Studije i eseji o feminizmu II. Feminizam u modernoj knjizevnosti [Studies and Essays on Feminism II. Feminism in Modern Literature] | Hlapec Djordjević, Julka | 1937 | - |
| George Richmond, portrait of Charlotte Brontë, chalk, 1850. National Portrait Gallery | None | is portrait of |
MENTIONED IN:
- Beauvoir, Deuxième sexe, 1949 (ed.Folio 1976, p. 139)
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Bronte's bold depiction of the social and psychological situation of the 19th century women has generated much recent feminist commentary".
- Offen, European feminisms, 2000
- Vaessens, Geschiedenis van de moderne Nederlandse literatuur, 2013, p. 64
See her correspondence (quotation in NEWW site)
Impossible love for married man;
marriage to another 1854.
Edits MCL Feb2014 HERA
Health: Died from complications related to pregnancy (morning sickness), and also probably had typhus.
KLK 1904