Download or read book Villette Novel by written by Charlotte Brontë and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Bront�. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.Villette was Charlotte Bront�'s fourth novel; it was preceded by and is a reworking of the posthumously published The Professor, her first novel, and then by Jane Eyre and Shirley.PLOT:Villette begins with its famously passive protagonist, Lucy Snowe, age 14, staying at the home of her godmother Mrs. Bretton in "the clean and ancient town of Bretton", in England. Also in residence are Mrs. Bretton's son, John Graham Bretton (whom the family calls Graham), and a young visitor, Paulina Home (who is called Polly). Polly is a peculiar little girl who soon develops a deep devotion to Graham, who showers her with attention. But Polly's visit is cut short when her father arrives to take her away......Charlotte Bront� (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront� sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell.............Mary Augusta Ward CBE (n�e Arnold; 11 June 1851 - 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She worked to improve education for the poor and she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. During WWI she was asked to write books to explain the war by the American president.
Download or read book Villette with an Introduction by Mary Augusta Ward written by Charlotte Brontë and published by Digireads.com. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reworking of "The Professor," the author's first novel, "Villette" is Charlotte Bronte's fourth and last novel which is loosely based upon her own experiences at a boarding school in Brussels. The work follows the life of Lucy Snowe, a quiet yet self-reliant young girl without any family, from her life in the English countryside where she lives with her Godmother, to London, and finally to the French town of Villette, where she gains employment as a nanny at a boarding school. While there she is reunited with old acquaintances and meets the quick-tempered professor M. Paul Emanuel. The two eventually fall in love but seem destined to be kept apart by persons conspiring against them. "Villette" has gained a reputation as a gothic novel owing to several strange encounters Lucy has with a nun which may be the ghost of a woman who was put to death on the school's grounds for breaking her vow of chastity. These strange visions give an appropriate atmosphere to a novel whose theme is one of loneliness and isolation. While not as popular as "Jane Eyre," Bronte's "Villette" is a work which arguably exceeds in literary standing her more famous work. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by Mary Augusta Ward.
Download or read book Time Space and Place in Charlotte Bront written by Diane Long Hoeveler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized thematically around the themes of time, space, and place, this collection examines Charlotte Brontë in relationship to her own historical context and to her later critical reception, takes up the literal and metaphorical spaces of her literary output, and sheds light on place as both a psychic and geographical phenomenon in her novels and their adaptations. Foregrounding both a historical and a broad cultural approach, the contributors also follow the evolution of Brontë's literary reputation in essays that place her work in conversation with authors such as Samuel Richardson, Walter Scott, and George Sand and offer insights into the cultural and critical contexts that influenced her status as a canonical writer. Taken together, the essays in this volume reflect the resurgence of popular and scholarly interest in Charlotte Brontë and the robust expansion of Brontë studies that is currently under way.
Download or read book Villette written by Charlotte Brontë and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Villette with an Introd by Mrs Humphry Ward written by Bronte Charlotte 1816-1855 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Literary Celebrity Gender and Victorian Authorship 1850 1914 written by Alexis Easley and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914 with chapters focused on a variety of Victorian authors, including Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, and Octavia Hill. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity. As Victorians toured the homes and haunts of famous writers, they developed a sense of shared national heritage. At the same time, by reading sensational accounts of writers' lives, they were able to reconsider conventional gender roles and domestic arrangements. Women writers capitalized on celebrity media as a way of furthering their own careers and retelling British history on their own terms. Easley demonstrates how the trope of the literary celebrity was utilized for other purposes as well, including the professionalization of medicine, the development of the open space movement, and the formation of the literary canon.
Download or read book Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth Century Britain written by Joanne Wilkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing particularly on the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, Joanne Wilkes offers in-depth examinations of reviews by eight female critics: Maria Jane Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams, Julia Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward. What they wrote about women writers, and what their writings tell us about the critics' own sense of themselves as women writers, reveal the distinctive character of nineteenth-century women's contributions to literary history. Wilkes explores the different choices these critics, writing when women had to grapple with limiting assumptions about female intellectual capacities, made about how to disseminate their own writing. While several publishing in periodicals wrote anonymously, others published books, articles and reviews under their own names. Wilkes teases out the distinctiveness of nineteenth-century women's often ignored contributions to the critical reception of canonical women authors, and also devotes space to the pioneering efforts of Lawrance, Kavanagh and Williams to draw attention to the long tradition of female literary activity up to the nineteenth century. She draws on commentary by male critics of the period as well, to provide context for this important contribution to the recuperation of women's critical discourse in nineteenth-century Britain.
Download or read book Clio s Daughters written by Lynette Felber and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They discover new texts and methodologies, exploring nineteenth-century British women's historiography, their writing of history, often through unexpected sources not previously regarded as historical venues: journalism, travel writing, architectural preservation, and costume balls."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Helbeck of Bannisdale written by Humphry Ward and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Marcella written by Mrs. Humphry Ward and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Mrs Humphry Ward Illustrated written by Mrs. Humphry Ward and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 8727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Victorian novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward) embraced the novel as her medium for exploring the serious dilemmas of the age. Her 1888 masterpiece ‘Robert Elsmere’, a novel on the theme of religious faith and doubt, enjoyed phenomenal sales on both sides of the Atlantic. Altogether Ward published 26 novels and was the world’s best-selling novelist at the turn of the century, earning royalties unprecedented at the time. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Ward’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ward’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 26 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare books appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Ward’s non-fiction, including rare essays – available in no other collection * Ward’s autobiography * Features a bonus biography – discover Ward’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Milly and Olly (1881) Miss Bretherton (1884) Robert Elsmere (1888) The History of David Grieve (1892) Marcella (1894) The Story of Bessie Costrell (1895) Sir George Tressady (1896) Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898) Eleanor (1900) Lady Rose’s Daughter (1903) The Marriage of William Ashe (1905) Fenwick’s Career (1906) Diana Mallory (1908) Daphne (1909) Canadian Born (1910) The Case of Richard Meynell (1911) The Mating of Lydia (1913) The Coryston Family (1913) Delia Blanchflower (1914) Eltham House (1915) A Great Success (1915) Lady Connie (1916) Missing (1917) The War and Elizabeth (1918) Cousin Philip (1919) Harvest (1920) The Non-Fiction Amiel’s Journal (1885) The Brontë Prefaces (1899) Anti-Suffrage Essays (1908) John Lyly (1911) England’s Effort: Six Letters to an American Friend (1916) Wordsworth’s Valley in War-Time (1916) Towards the Goal (1917) Fields of Victory (1919) The Autobiography A Writer’s Recollections (1918) The Biography The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward by Janet Penrose Trevelyan Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Download or read book Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities written by Emily Walker Heady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Victorian authors rarely discuss conversion experiences separately from the modes in which they are narrated, Emily Walker Heady argues that the conversion narrative became, in effect, a form of literary criticism. Literary conventions, in turn, served the reciprocal function as a means of discussing the nature of what Heady calls the 'heart-change.' Heady reads canonical authors such as John Henry Newman, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde through a dual lens of literary history and post-liberal theology. As Heady shows, these authors question the ability of realism to contain the emotionally freighted and often jarring plot lines that characterize conversion. In so doing, they explore the limits of narrative form while also shedding light on the ways in which conversion narratives address and often disrupt the reading communities in which they occur.
Download or read book The life of Charlotte Bront by Mrs Gaskell with an introduction and notes by C K Shorter written by Charlotte Brontë and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid Century Novel written by Teresa Huffman Traver and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel argues that the Creedal doctrines of “the communion of saints” and the “holy Catholic Church” provided Victorian novelists—both Roman Catholic and Protestant—with a means of exploring religious forms of cosmopolitanism. Building on research exploring the divisions between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in Victorian literature and culture, Teresa Huffman Traver considers the extent to which anti-Catholicism, domesticity, and national identity were linked. Huffman Traver connects this research with cosmopolitan theory, and analyzes how the conception of Catholicity could be used to reach beyond national identity towards a transnational community. Investigating the idea of a “rooted” cosmopolitanism, grounded in the local and limited in scope, this Pivot book offers a new angle on how religion, domesticity, and national identity were constructed in nineteenth-century British culture.
Download or read book The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors 1855 1874 written by Charles Wells Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
