The Luddite Riots appear in which of Charlotte Bronte's novels?
"Celtic temple site before the Roman Conquest. It became the site of the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, now known as St Peters. The brook formed the ancient boundary between Gomersal and Birstall. The Luddite riots, that occurred in the area in 1812 provided Charlotte Brontë with material for her novel ""Shirley"". Gomersal was the hometown of her friend Mary Taylor who lived at the Red House which she renamed ""Briarmains"" in the novel. The Taylor Family also lived in Spen Hall, a residence in the Lower Spen area of Gomersal. Spen Hall has been divided into"
"on the Luddite attack on Cartwright's Mill at Rawfolds, Liversedge, though it is believed also to take some inspiration from Taylor's Mill at Hunsworth. Patrick Bronte had lived in the Hightown area of Liversedge for a while, and Charlotte knew the area well. Robert Moore is a mill owner noted for apparent ruthlessness towards his employees. He has laid off many of them, apparently indifferent to their consequent impoverishment. In fact he had no choice, since the mill is deeply in debt. He is determined to restore his family's honour and fortune. As the novel opens, Robert awaits delivery of"
"have to be defined by the roles of either colonized or colonzier."" Critics have also focused on the many intertexts on which the novel draws. Diane Simmons details the way in which the novel draws on John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"" and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"", noting that Brontë was Kincaid's favorite author. David Yost observes that ""Lucy"" contains many correspondences to another Brontë novel, ""Villette""—including the names of its primary couple (Lucy and Paul), its plot (an au pair adjusting to a foreign culture), its themes (sexual repression of women and self-recreation through art), and its setting (""Villette""'s Paul dies"
"in various animals, including humans, and Peter Brontë Gatenby, the Medical Director of the UN. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the"
"Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the first to know success, while Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"", Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" and other works were"
"she was employed by the Sidgwick family at their summer residence, Stone Gappe, in Lothersdale, where one of her charges was John Benson Sidgwick (1835–1927), an unruly child who on one occasion threw a Bible at Charlotte, an incident that may have been the inspiration for a part of the opening chapter of ""Jane Eyre"" in which John Reed throws a book at the young Jane. Brontë did not enjoy her work as a governess, noting her employers treated her almost as a slave, constantly humiliating her. Brontë was of slight build and was less than five feet tall. In"
"escapes. The anti-Catholic Gothic tradition continued with Charlotte Brontë's semi-autobiographical novel ""Villette"" (1853). Bronte explores the culture clash between the heroine's English Protestantism and the Catholicism of the environment at her school in 'Villette' (aka Brussels) before magisterially pronouncing ""God is not with Rome."" In a chapter of Fyodor Dostoevsky's ""The Brothers Karamazov"" called ""The Grand Inquisitor"", the Catholic Church convicts a returned-from-Heaven Jesus Christ of heresy and is portrayed as a servant of Satan. Dan Brown's best-selling novel ""The Da Vinci Code"" depicts the Catholic Church as determined to hide the truth about Mary Magdalene. An article in an"
"very essence of the rise of those forbidden things. Branwell's Charlotte Zamorna, one of the heroes of ""Verdopolis"", tends towards increasingly ambiguous behaviour, and the same influence and evolution recur with the Brontës, especially in the characters of Heathcliff in ""Wuthering Heights"", and Mr. Rochester in ""Jane Eyre"", who display the traits of a Byronic hero. Numerous other works have left their mark on the Brontës—the ""Thousand and One Nights"" for example, which inspired jinn in which they became themselves in the centre of their kingdoms, while adding a touch of exoticism. The children's imagination was also influenced by three"
"author Hilary Scharper's ecogothic novel ""Perdita"" (2013) was deeply influenced by ""Wuthering Heights,"" namely in terms of the narrative role of powerful, cruel and desolate landscapes.<ref>Bob Douglas, ""The Eco-Gothic: Hilary Scharper's Perdita"", ""Critics at Large"", 19 Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym ""Ellis Bell"". It was written between October 1845 and June 1846. ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne Brontë's ""Agnes Grey"" were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel ""Jane Eyre"". After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of ""Wuthering Heights"" and arranged for the edited"
"Villette (novel) Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. 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 Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by ""The Professor"" (her posthumously published first novel, of which ""Villette"" is a reworking), ""Jane Eyre"", and ""Shirley"". In 1842 Charlotte Brontë, at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. There they enrolled in a ""pensionnat"""
"conventions of Romanticism and the Gothic novel. For example, in Ann Radcliffe's ""The Mysteries of Udolpho"" (1794), during a thunderstorm above the ramparts of the castle: In Herman Melville's novel ""Moby-Dick"", Starbuck points out ""corpusants"" during a thunder storm in the Japanese sea in chapter 119 ""The Candles"". St. Elmo's fire makes an appearance in ""The Adventures of Tintin"" comic, ""Tintin in Tibet"", by Hergé. Tintin recognizes the phenomenon on Captain Haddock's ice-axe. In Kurt Vonnegut's ""Slaughterhouse-Five"", Billy Pilgrim sees the phenomenon on soldiers' helmets and on rooftops. Vonnegut's ""The Sirens of Titan"" also notes the phenomenon affecting Winston Niles"
"Brontës' fiction is seen by some feminist critics as prime examples of Female Gothic, exploring woman's entrapment within domestic space and subjection to patriarchal authority and the transgressive and dangerous attempts to subvert and escape such restriction. Emily's Cathy and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" are both examples of female protagonists in such a role. Louisa May Alcott's Gothic potboiler, ""A Long Fatal Love Chase"" (written in 1866, but published in 1995) is also an interesting specimen of this subgenre. Elizabeth Gaskell's tales ""The Doom of the Griffiths"" (1858) ""Lois the Witch"", and ""The Grey Woman"" all employ one of the"
"June 2010 Bron guest-starred in ""Foyle's War"" in the episode ""The Russian House"". She appeared in the long-running British TV series ""Midsomer Murders"" as Lady Isobel DeQuetteville in the episode ""The Dark Rider"", first aired on ITV1 on 1 February 2012. On 25 December 2013 Bron appeared on BBC One in an adaptation of the M.R. James ghost story ""The Tractate Middoth"". On 25 July 2014 she joined the cast of radio soap ""The Archers"", playing the part of Carol Tregorran. She is the author of several books, including ""Life and Other Punctures"", a 1978 account of bicycling in France"
"know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published ""Shirley"" and ""Jane Eyre"" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance"
"Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but"
"reign of Charles II. William Wordsworth was a frequent visitor to Matlock; the Peak inspired several of his poems, including an 1830 sonnet to Chatsworth House. The village of Morton in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel ""Jane Eyre"" is based on Hathersage, where Brontë stayed in 1845, and Thornfield Hall might have been inspired by nearby North Lees Hall. Snowfield in George Eliot's first novel ""Adam Bede"" (1859) is believed to be based on Wirksworth, where her uncle managed a mill; Ellastone (as Hayslope) and Ashbourne (as Oakbourne) also feature. Beatrix Potter, the author of Peter Rabbit, visited her uncle Edmund"
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"
"their relations with industrialists, focusing more on the thinking and perspective of the employers. ""Shirley"" (1849), Charlotte Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"", is also a social novel. Set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, the action in ""Shirley"" takes place against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. Social problems are also an important concern in the novels of Charles Dickens, including in particular poverty and the unhealthy living conditions associated with it, the exploitation of ordinary people by money"
"on the ""Crimes of Passion"" album. ""Wind & Wuthering"" (1976) by English rock band Genesis alludes to the Brontë novel not only in the album's title but also in the titles of two of its tracks, ""Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..."" and ""...In That Quiet Earth"". Both titles refer to the closing lines in the novel. Songwriter Jim Steinman said that he wrote the song ""It's All Coming Back To Me Now"" ""while under the influence of ""Wuthering Heights"""". He said that the song was ""about being enslaved and obsessed by love"" and compared it to ""Heathcliffe digging up Kathy's"
"like Herman Melville in works such as ""Moby Dick"" (1851). Early Victorian Gothic novels that employed contemporary rural settings included Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847) and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" (1847). Whereas these early Gothic novels had tended to use the city as a starting point and then moved to rural locations, abandoning the settings and securities of urban civilisation for wild and dangerous rural regions, the Gothic novels of the mid-nineteenth century began to reverse this process, or were conducted entirely in the modern industrial city, which itself became a zone of liminality, danger and adventure, and from the"
"Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym ""Ellis Bell"". It was written between October 1845 and June 1846. ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne Brontë's ""Agnes Grey"" were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel ""Jane Eyre"". After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of ""Wuthering Heights"" and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850. Although ""Wuthering Heights"" is now a classic of English literature, contemporary reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of"
"and was echoed in Brontë's adult works. The characteristics of Arthur Huntington and Annabella Wilmot, both self-indulgent sexual transgressors, may be relics of Gondal, where most of the main heroes were extravagant and led adventurous lives. Four houses in the younger Brontës' novels have ""W. H."" initials: Wellwood House in ""Agnes Grey"", the eponymous mansion in ""Wuthering Heights"", and Wildfell Hall and Woodford Hall in ""The Tenant"". ""Ur-hall"" in Gondal may be the source of inspiration for at least two of them — Wuthering Heights and Wildfell Hall. Citing all this, Davies concludes that Charlotte's statement that Anne ""hated her"
"fourth season of the 2014 television series, ""Hell on Wheels"" has a few Dead Rabbit characters. A book of poetry by Richard Griffin, ""The Dead Rabbit Riot, A.D. 1857: And Other Poems"", was published in 1915. Patricia Beatty's 1987 historical children's fiction novel ""Charlie Skedaddle"" mentions Dead Rabbits (the main character is a Bowery Boy). Artist George Henry Hall's 1858 painting is titled ""A Dead Rabbit"" (also entitled ""Study of the Nude"" or ""Study of an Irishman""), which depicts a dead Dead Rabbit gang member killed during the riot on July 4, 1857 in New York City's Lower East Side."
"worn inside the bank. From that date until 31 March 1973 the detachment became more functional than ceremonial, doing their duties in service dress with automatic weapons. Maria Edgeworth's 1817 novel ""Harrington"" contains a vivid evocation of the Gordon Riots, with two characters readers would find unsympathetic taken for Papists and finding refuge in the home of the rich Spanish Jew, the father of the young Jewish woman at the centre of the love story. Charles Dickens' 1841 novel ""Barnaby Rudge"" depicts the Gordon Riots and features Lord George in a prominent role. John Creasey's 1974 novel ""The Masters of"
"""per se"""". Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a"
"Fayette. He appears in Voltaire's epic poem ""La Henriade"" (1723). He is one of the characters in Alexandre Dumas's novel ""La Reine Margot"" and its sequels, ""La Dame de Monsoreau"" and ""The Forty-Five Guardsmen"". Stanley Weyman's novel ""A Gentleman of France"" includes the Duke of Guise in its tale about the War of the Three Henries. Ken Follett's novel ""A Column of Fire"" features Henry, Duke of Guise as a prominent character, and explores his involvement with the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The Duke is a leading character in the play ""The Massacre at Paris"", by Christopher Marlowe. George Onslow's"
"miraculous gift, grand reunions, etc. and in a sense, it is the route followed by Charlotte's and Anne's protagonists, even if the riches they win are more those of the heart than of the wallet. Apart from its Gothic elements, ""Wuthering Heights"" moves like a Greek tragedy and possesses its music, the cosmic dimensions of the epics of John Milton, and the power of the Shakespearian theatre. One can hear the echoes of ""King Lear"" as well as the completely different characters of ""Romeo and Juliet"". The Brontës were also seduced by the writings of Walter Scott, and in 1834"
"Shadow Fox Shadow Fox: Sons of Liberty is a 2010 children's time travel novel by Ron Hardman and Jessica Hardman. The fantastical elements of the story lead into a historically accurate depiction of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride at the start of the American Revolution. The novel's themes include liberty, freedom, loyalty, and the explosive tension between the Sons of Liberty and British Redcoats as the American Revolution begins. Real events described in the novel include Nikola Tesla's experiments at his 1899 laboratory in Colorado, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. A factual section"
"he detests the sight of the Bible. He also refuses to accept any form of payment. Lady Wheelhope hates him and attempts to kill him, but all her efforts mysteriously backfire, instead resulting in the deaths of those she loves. The novel never reveals whether Merodach is actually of supernatural origin or if he is merely a peculiar-looking servant. Charlotte and Emily Brontë were both familiar with Hogg's stories and his portrayal of Merodach may have greatly influenced Emily's portrayal of her character Heathcliff in ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847). Brownies are also briefly referenced in Charlotte's novel ""Villette"" (1853). The late"
"Scholar Catherine Keyser has noted influences from Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" in Crafts' writing. In total, Gates and Robbins document that Crafts echoes or lifts passages from a remarkably impressive range of English and American literature, including Horace Walpole's ""Castle of Otranto,"" Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre,"" Walter Scott's ""Rob Roy"" and ""Redgauntlet,"" Thomas Campbell's ""Life and Letters,"" Dickens's ""Old Curiosity Shop"" and ""Bleak House,"" Felicia Heman's poetry, John Gauden's ""Discourse on Artificial Beauty,"" William Wirt's ""Life of Patrick Henry,"" Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"" and ""Antony and Cleopatra,"" Michel Chevalier's ""Society, Manners and Politics in the United States"" and Phillis Wheatley's ""To a"
"Brontë's devilish ""madwoman in the attic"". Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to a certain unnamed English gentleman, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, and takes her to England. Antoinette is caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she neither fully belongs to Europe nor Jamaica. ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" explores the power of relationships between men and women and develops postcolonial themes, such as racism, displacement, and assimilation. The novel, initially set in Jamaica, opens a short while after the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended slavery in the"
"Smith - British commanding officers at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Robert Newman, Thomas Bernard, and John Pulling - Thomas stood guard while Robert and John raised the lanterns in the steeple of the Old North Church. Shadow Fox Shadow Fox: Sons of Liberty is a 2010 children's time travel novel by Ron Hardman and Jessica Hardman. The fantastical elements of the story lead into a historically accurate depiction of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride at the start of the American Revolution. The novel's themes include liberty, freedom, loyalty, and the explosive tension between the Sons of Liberty and British"
"muted reception from critics. The four central characters are studies in contrast: the two friends Caroline Helstone and Shirley Keeldar, and their loves, the brothers Robert and Louis Gérard Moore. Other characters in the novel include: Shirley (novel) Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"" (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of"