Write a note on the woman novelist of the victorian era
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Charlotte Bronte:
The three Bronte sisters-Anne, Charlotte, and Emily-collectively known often as the "stormy sisterhood," who took the England of their time by storm, were in actual life shy and isolated girls with rather uneventful lives. All of them died young and died of tuberculosis as their two other "non-literary" sisters did. They were daughters of a strict Irish person who made them lead a life of what Compton-Rickett calls, "the sternest self-repression." But behind their outwardly rippleless lives lurked tempest-tossed souls which found an outlet in their novels which are all so patently autobiographic. They poured their inner life into the mould of the novel. This consideration leads Hugh Walker to assert: "The Brontes belong to that class of writers whom it is impossible to understand except through the medium of biography." But too much of preoccupation with biography should not be allowed to lead us to a lopsided appreciation of their novels. Thus Samuel C. Chew observes : "The three Bronte sisters have been overlaid with so much biography, criticism, and conjecture that in reading about them there is danger lest their own books be left unread." Charlotte Bronte wrote the following four novels:
(i) The Professor
(ii) VUlette
(iii) Jane Eyre
(iv) Shirley
The first two novels were based on her personal experiences at a Brusselsboarding-house where she most probably fell in love with the Belgian scholar Heger who perfectly answered her conception of a dashing hero of the Byronic type. Her soul had always yearned for such a Lochinvar, but she being the daughter of a village parson, the men who made proposals to her actually were lacklustre curates with one of whom she ultimately settled down in 1854-a year before her death. But she worshipped a dashing, splendid, masculine figure as Heger was. Her frustrated passion for him provides the groundwork of her first two novels. The heroine of her third novel is a governess, just like her sister Anne. Her tempestuous love-affair with Rochester-a combination of wonderful nobility and meanness is the staple of this novel. In Shirley, to quote Legouis, "she set a story of intimate emotion against a background of Yorkshire in the time of the industrial disturbances." Perhaps the elemental and unchastened presence of the Yorkshire moor among which the Brontes lived is to some extent responsible for the fierce passions and elemental emotions which are characteristic of their works.
The three Bronte sisters-Anne, Charlotte, and Emily-collectively known often as the "stormy sisterhood," who took the England of their time by storm, were in actual life shy and isolated girls with rather uneventful lives. All of them died young and died of tuberculosis as their two other "non-literary" sisters did. They were daughters of a strict Irish person who made them lead a life of what Compton-Rickett calls, "the sternest self-repression." But behind their outwardly rippleless lives lurked tempest-tossed souls which found an outlet in their novels which are all so patently autobiographic. They poured their inner life into the mould of the novel. This consideration leads Hugh Walker to assert: "The Brontes belong to that class of writers whom it is impossible to understand except through the medium of biography." But too much of preoccupation with biography should not be allowed to lead us to a lopsided appreciation of their novels. Thus Samuel C. Chew observes : "The three Bronte sisters have been overlaid with so much biography, criticism, and conjecture that in reading about them there is danger lest their own books be left unread." Charlotte Bronte wrote the following four novels:
(i) The Professor
(ii) VUlette
(iii) Jane Eyre
(iv) Shirley
The first two novels were based on her personal experiences at a Brusselsboarding-house where she most probably fell in love with the Belgian scholar Heger who perfectly answered her conception of a dashing hero of the Byronic type. Her soul had always yearned for such a Lochinvar, but she being the daughter of a village parson, the men who made proposals to her actually were lacklustre curates with one of whom she ultimately settled down in 1854-a year before her death. But she worshipped a dashing, splendid, masculine figure as Heger was. Her frustrated passion for him provides the groundwork of her first two novels. The heroine of her third novel is a governess, just like her sister Anne. Her tempestuous love-affair with Rochester-a combination of wonderful nobility and meanness is the staple of this novel. In Shirley, to quote Legouis, "she set a story of intimate emotion against a background of Yorkshire in the time of the industrial disturbances." Perhaps the elemental and unchastened presence of the Yorkshire moor among which the Brontes lived is to some extent responsible for the fierce passions and elemental emotions which are characteristic of their works.
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