Daily Archives for: May 18th, 2017

Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë: Alike or Different?

By | On May 18, 2017 | Updated January 1, 2025 | Comments (0)

Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë might be linked by their early 19th-century British backgrounds and legions of devotees. They had some similarities in their backgrounds and paths to publication, yet many differences. This isn’t a Jane Austen vs Charlotte Brontë competition; they were both brilliant writers!

Perhaps they’re often compared because they were among the group of British women writers who made an immense contribution to literature in the first part of the 1800s. Read More→

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Quotes by Charlotte Brontë on Her Writing Life

By | On May 18, 2017 | Updated November 9, 2019 | Comments (0)

The story of Charlotte Brontë‘s (1816 – 1855) writing life  is one of sheer genius meeting tireless determination. She and her brilliant sisters Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë took masculine pseudonyms to improve their chances of finding publishers.

You can read more about the challenges and prejudices they faced in their pursuits in The Brontë’s Sisters Path To Publication. Here’s a sampling of passages and quotes by Charlotte Brontë on the writing life, starting with a query letter — yes, even she was compelled to write them:
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