CHARLOTE BRONTË
ALMA ZAMORANO ISART, ANDREA PÉREZ MEJÍA Y SARA ALCAIDE DELGADO
CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S LIFE
- 21st April 1816 – 31st March 1855
- The family soon moved to Haworth which would become their beloved home
- Maria 's loss.
- Elizabeth Branwell
- 1824, Cowan Bridge School (Lancashire)
- Death of Maria and Elizabeth.
- Patrick’s tutorship, love for poetry.
- Angria and Gondal
BIOGRAPHY
- Roe Head
- 1842, Brussels, Constantin Heger 's Boarding School.
- Return home, degradation of Patrick’s health and Charlotte’s emotional attachment.
- 1846, male pseudonyms.
- The Professor, Smith, Elder and Co.
- 1847, "Jane Eyre", a massive success.
- Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heiths. Speculations about a femenine author.
- "Jane Eyre", an “improper novel”.
- "Shirley", published in 1849 caused the author to reveal her true identity.
- "Villete"
- Marriage and death, 1855
CONTEXT
- Characteristic modes of the Victorian period.
- Marketability of literary genres in the 1830s.
- 18th-century topographical poem.
- A link between women and madness in the 1850s.
- The Industrial Revolution.
- A series of political revolutions in 1848.
- Popular genres gained influence and prestige.
CONTEXT
QUOTE
“Victorian novels tend to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end. They were usually inclined towards being of improving nature with a central moral lesson at heart. While this formula was the basis for much of earlier Victorian fiction, the situation became more complex as the century progressed.”
Literary
Movements
Literary Movement and usual theme
Novels
Novels characterized by emotions, a work of introspection and symbolism that reflect the conflicts about self-discovery.
WORK
Tales of Glasstown, Angria and Gondal
“Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because — without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called 'feminine' – we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we had noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the weapon of personality, and for their reward, a flattery, which is not true praise.”
Shirley
- 1849, Smith, Elder and Co.
- Authoritative and satirical third-person narrator in order to challenge the social assumptions about women’s nature and education as well as interpretation of religion and political controversy.
Villete
- Published in 1853
- Grief
- It is an autobiographical narrative where an older Lucy Snowe narrates her experience as an English teacher in a girls’ school in Brussels and how she suppresses her attraction to John Graham Bretton (based on George Smith, Charlotte's young publisher) and her fascination and love for Monsieur Paul Emanuel, a despotic professor (based on Constantin Heger)
The Professor
JANE EYRE
Basic Information
CRITICAL REFLEXION
- Important figure in the history of 19th-century poetry.
- Virginia Woolf’s claim that Charlotte Brontë’s novels are read “for her poetry".
- A“major author” in the accepted canon of British literature.
- Combination of romance and satiric realism.
- What it is like to live as a woman in the 19th century and in the 21st century.
- Tension between emotional satisfactions and realistic conflicts.
CRITICAL REFLEXION
VIDEO
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSw--rhEtrI
VIDEO
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Tompkins, J. M. S. (2022, 31 agosto). Charlotte Bronte | Biography, Books, Novels, Jane Eyre & Facts. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-Bronte
- Poetry Foundation. (s. f.). Charlotte Brontë. Recuperado 3 de noviembre de 2022, de https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charlotte-bronte
- Flippin’ English. (2016, 2 marzo). Charlotte Bronte: historical and social context [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W4-U_FISW4
- Department of English. (2019, 11 noviembre). 19th Century British Literature. https://english.wustl.edu/19th-century-british-literature
- Ezilmez, İ. (s. f.). About 19th Century England & Literature. Recuperado 3 de noviembre de 2022, de https://typelish.com/b/about-19th-century-england-literature-101658
- Victorian Britain: a brief history. (s. f.). The Historical Association. Recuperado 3 de noviembre de 2022, de https://www.history.org.uk/primary/resource/3871/victorian-britain-a-brief-history
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Jane Eyre and other novels of Charlotte Brontë. Joyce M.S. Tompkins | Encyclopaedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-Bronte/Jane-Eyre-and-other-novels
- The Victorian Period: https://www.easternct.edu/speichera/understanding-literary-history-all/the-victorian-period.html
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Charlotte Bronte | Biography, Books, Novels, Jane Eyre & Facts. (1998, 20 julio). Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-Bronte/Jane-Eyre-and-other-novels
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (2014, 19 febrero). https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/119-2014-02-19-4.+The+Bronte+sisters.pdf
Brontë [married name Nicholls], Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell] (1816â1855), novelist. (s. f.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-3523