How To Use Bronte In A Sentence
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Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, and their gifted sister Anne Bronte came from a large family of Irish origin.
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Italian turned out to be silly, while the Welshman recalled the gloomier imaginings of the BRONTËS, and in the event came by an appropriately violent end.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916
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'Jane Eyre' is Bronte's classic novel of courage in the face of despair.
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Through this point of view, Brontë herself speaks to the readers and warns of idolatry.
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Charlotte Brontë's novel is not very different from typical gothic thrillers - everything from a sadistic schoolmaster to the arsonist madwoman in the attic.
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Patrick Bronte fathered Bronte, but more importantly, he fathered Anne, Emily and Charlotte.
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Women from Jane Austen and Mary Shelley to Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson produced literary works that are in some sense palimpsestic, works whose surface designs conceal or obscure deeper, less accessible (and less socially acceptable) levels of meaning.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
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The win gives Bronte a home tie in the semi-final when they will meet Grassington United.
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He told me that one day this summer (when the Brontes had been for about four months receiving instruction from him) he read to them Victor Hugo's celebrated portrait of Mirabeau, "mais, dans ma lecon je me bornais a ce qui concerne _Mirabeau orateur_.
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
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The term “sensation novels” emerges as a profoundly apt encapsulation of the qualities of strangeness this process of abjection is locked onto (and one that is a precursor of “genre fiction” and comparable with “coloured people” in its disregard for the sensationalist content of writers like Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë and countless others in the canon).
What is Literary Fiction?
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Bronte's limited world was one of moorland and governesses, big houses and class strictures, but Boylan goes further, uncovering the underbelly of Victorian society with retrospective omniscience.
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To attack the first is not to assail the last - said Charlotte Bronte, English novelist
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She glanced across the room and for a second, she fancied that she saw Emily Bronte, an unreadable expression on her face, nodding her approval.
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The Brontë family lived there before moving to the parsonage at Haworth.
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The collection has been loaned by the British Library to the Bronte Parsonage Museum.
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She discloses that the outbreak has had a dire effect on the numbers visiting the parsonage, once the home of the famed Brönte sisters, resulting in admission takings being down almost £18,000 on last year's figure.
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In common with other early nineteenth century literature, Emily Brontë's novel contains elements of romanticism, gothic, and fantasy.
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In her defiant assertion, ‘it is a true thing’, Charlotte Brontë was probably thinking of two specific authorities on the subject of mesmerism and clairvoyant communication.
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Because the publishing industry of the early and middle nineteenth century spurned female writers, Charlotte Bronte chose to work under the androgynous pseudonym Currier Bell.
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Charlotte Bronte was a year in writing "Jane Eyre," spurred on to new effort by the recent rejection of "The Professor," but to write such a book in a year cannot be called overhasty production when one considers how much of "Jane Eyre" was drawn from Charlotte Bronte's own life, and also how she and her sisters had been experimenting with literature from their earliest childhood.
Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods Which Brought into Being the Novels that Endure
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An interesting book, Sybil, but Disraeli was not much of a novelist; it reads like spirited and somewhat artless version of Brontë's Shirley, or an abridged and more explicitly class-based Wives and Daughters.
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Passengers join Santa and all his pixies and elves for a one hour steam train journey through Bronte Country.
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‘Well!’ she said, ‘Yah know, it’s getting up like nah (now), between a cah (cow) and a cofe — what we call a stirk, yah know, Miss Bronte; will yah turn it this way if yah happen to see’t, as yah’re going back, Miss Bronte; nah DO, Miss Bronte.’”
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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The purple heather, the blustering gales (or wuthering winds if you're an Emily Bronte fan) and the winding paths that encourage all day dalliance - what's not to love?
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The Austen/Bronte books being done in pastel pink is particularly tasteless and dreadful, but I pity the poor authors who spent years crafting books they think of as serious to get slapped with a high hems and heels cover.
Chick-lit strikes back
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What seems more likely is that Brontë was drawing on her knowledge of the science of mesmerism.
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Anne was the only famous Brontë not be buried in the church crypt at Haworth, near Bradford, which was concreted over earlier this century.
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It was partly for this reason that Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights under the male pseudonym of Ellis Bell.
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Charlotte Brontë's fear of being accused of plagiarism certainly rules out any conscious literary indebtedness.
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The documents range from Lord Halifax's family archives to Charlotte Bronte's final testament, to humble title deeds.
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Like other Brontë aficionados, he probably imagined she had a detailed knowledge of the book, but it turned out she had not read it.
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The young American bemoaned the wet and cold of the Pennines, disconcerted by their bleakness that inspired the Brontes more than a century before.
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However, this week, he had purchased a second-hand copy of poems by Emily Bronte, which had been recently republished in 1901.
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The approach to the house, via a long tree-lined sweeping avenue, takes you back to the era of Emily Bronte.
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The first part of a special BBC docu-drama on the Brontës will be screened on Sunday.
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Anyone who has read the Bronte Sisters knows the kind of high-flown passion the Victorians held dear.
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The Brontës were fond of flowers and mentioned them in their books, and Charlotte, who wrote Jane Eyre, corresponded with her friend Ellen Nussey in March 1844, seeking advice on behalf of Emily.
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• Bradford or Keighley would be more appropriate stations for Emily Brontë Letters, 29 December; Haworth would be best, though it is on a quirky line.
Letters: The fifth Beetle
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Often Bronte's most powerful scenes are dyadic: two pictures appear in the mind, bang, bang, two acts of imagistic assertion, with the second simply erasing or subtracting the first.
Archive 2010-02-07
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'Well!' she said, 'Yah know, it's getting up like nah (now), between a cah (cow) and a cofe -- what we call a stirk, yah know, Miss Bronte; will yah turn it this way if yah happen to see't, as yah're going back, Miss Bronte; nah DO, Miss
Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2
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Now Blake Morrison turns his attention to Charlotte, Anne and Emily in a new adaptation, produced by Northern Broadsides, which offers more than a nod to Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which is believed to have been inspired by the Brontës and their brother Branwell, who frittered away his early promise.
This week's new theatre and dance
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The classic written by Haworth's Charlotte Bronte was sold to a bidder in the saleroom at Sotheby's during a sale of signed books and manuscripts.
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It's obvious I'm horribly out of place: I don't know what onomatopoeia means, I don't like metafiction, I haven't read any of the Brontë sisters, and I don't care about the correct placement of semi-colons; I'm on edge.
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And Morris compares himself to Charlotte BrontE's Jane Eyre -- and Clinton to her mysterious inamorato, Rochester.
See Dick Run The Country
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London's first chapter on the Brontes' juvenilia critiques the literary-critical construction of an individual, solitary author out of collaborative, adolescent writing practices.
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However, this week, he had purchased a second-hand copy of poems by Emily Bronte, which had been recently republished in 1901.
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In 1932, she published an essay about Charlotte Brontë that remains one of the most eloquent appreciations ever written by one author about another.
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As a result, the taxmen have now finally capitulated in the Brontë Society's case and agreed to give it the VAT exemption on all its income.
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He looks through the eyes of Roman historians, diarists like Samuel Pepys, and novelists like Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Virginia Woolf.
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If Miss Miles was by Charlotte Brontë, there was no reason on earth for not proclaiming the fact to the skies and coining money from it.
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But Brontë's response implies that if we resist filling in the blanks and instead look closely at these elisions, we may find something more powerful in their place: a picture without words.
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Who are some of your punk and metal heroes? punk heroes: adee roberson (new bloods) & brontez purnell (the younger lovers); metal heroes: lozen (two piece metal band from tacoma washington)
Author-friends, Meet Osa
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Heavy rain has caused a massive landslide just yards from a world-famous Brontë shrine.
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I'm not sure if there's any way to adapt JE without making the plot seem cheap and rickety; without Bronte's sinewy sentences--what the Victorians would have called "racy"--the events all too easily devolve into the stuff of pure pop fiction.
Jane Eyre (1)
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He will have been thinking, for one thing, of the letters of complaint the Yorkshire Post has had from visitors to Haworth, home of the Brontës, who found they could not get away again.
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I don't know where to begin to explain it: there's her Brontëesque precocity how does a 13-year-old compose "The Man With the Child In His Eyes"?
My hero: Kate Bush by David Mitchell
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Bronte depicts young Master John Reed as virtually a paradigm of the Victorian bad boy, wallowing in gluttony, sadism, and a host of other deadly sins.
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The young American bemoaned the wet and cold of the Pennines, disconcerted by their bleakness that inspired the Brontes more than a century before.
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In The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys drew a haunting portrait of the young Mrs Rochester before she went mad and ended her days in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
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Brontë actually studied and taught at a pensionnat in Brussels, and Villette, the city where the book takes place, is a pseudonym for our capital.
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The win gives Bronte a home tie in the semi-final when they will meet Grassington United.
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When Hartington was killed, in Belgium in September 1944, the dukedom passed to his younger brother, Andrew (whose widow, Deborah Mitford, is now the last survivor of the most astonishing set of English sisters since the Brontës).
Feckless Youth
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One window - in stained glass - is a representational image of the moorland around the Brontë shrine.
