More Brontë-related scholar papers:
Barry, Herbert III
First Names of Fictional Characters in Novels by Charlotte Brontë
Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, 2009
The first name is a distinctive personal label. It usually distinguishes oneself from other family members and from most other people. In common with other novelists, Charlotte Brontë chose for many fictional characters the first name of an actual person who was important to her. Attributes of the fictional character might provide useful information on feelings of the author toward the actual namesake. An unusual attribute of the four novels by Charlotte Brontë is that the author revealed an actual person who was the model for more than two dozen fictional characters. Experiences of the author are reproduced by some of the fictional characters and by other aspects of the four successive novels The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette. In each novel, one of the most important characters partially resembles Charlotte Brontë. A very minor character named Charlotte, in Villette, is the only fictional namesake of the author. Most of the actions and events in The Professor and in Villette are in Brussels, Belgium. In that foreign city, Charlotte Brontë was a student and then teacher at a school for young ladies. She fell in love with a teacher who was the husband of the school’s director.
Mead-Willis, S.
"Negotiating with the Dead": Jane Eyre in the Postmodern
Literature Film Quarterly, 2010, Vol 38; Numb 1, pp 29-38
The secret war of feeling: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villette
Millhouse, J.
The secret war of feeling: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Villette
English Review, 2010, Vol 20; Numb 3, pp 32-34
Varley, Raymond
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and the Real Wuthering Heights
Yorkshire History Quarterly, 2010, Vol 14; Numb 3, pp 9-23
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