Rosengarten, Herbert

The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë( )

60 editions published between 1848 and 2017 in English and held by 2,743 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Overview: Anne, like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, published under a male pseudonym, Acton Bell, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era. Just as she had to use a male pseudonym in order to be free to publish, as women authors were not yet deemed acceptable or bankable, Helen Graham, the novel's protagonist and a battered wife, assumes an alias in order to gain freedom from her suffering and take up residence in Wildfell Hall, "the wildest and the loftiest eminence in our neighborhood," according to the tale's narrator. Like her sisters, Anne employs the atmosphere of the bleak Yorkshire moors and the presence of an old mansion to set the stage for a tragedy that reveals the secret violence in a society considered well-mannered, echoing the rough, cold, rugged gloom of the fictional Wildfell Hall and her family's own remote parsonage; narrating a story that Bronte scholar Margeret Lane remarked, "is so close to one of the tragedies in the sisters' own lives, that no perceptive reader can be indifferent to it."

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë( )

69 editions published between 1979 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"When Shirley Keldar, an heiress, marries a tutor whose brother owns a mill introducing labor-saving devices, she helps the brother's campaign."

Villette by Charlotte Brontë( )

55 editions published between 1978 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,234 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Beck's jealous interference to assert her right to love and to be loved."

The professor by Charlotte Brontë( Book )

31 editions published between 1906 and 2017 in English and held by 935 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Crimsworth takes a job teaching at a boarding school in Brussels, where he begins a flirtation with the headmistress, Zoraide Reuter. Later William falls in love with the young pupil-teacher Frances Henri, only to find his courtship thwarted by Mlle Reuter's calculating jealousy

Villette : Oxford World's Classics by Charlotte Bronte( )

5 editions published between 2000 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 41 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. Thus was George Eliot's response to Charlotte Bronte's dramatic Gothic exploration of a woman's rebellion against her constricting social environment. Set in a Belgian girls' school, it tells of Lucy Snowe's attraction to fiery, autocratic master Paul Emmanuel and headmistress, Madame Beck's jealous interference in their romance. The novel's blend of sombre vision and ironic and exuberant comedy make it especially appealing to the modern reader

Villette by ︠ Charlotte Bront( Book )

3 editions published between 1984 and 2008 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book features the definitive Clarendon edition of 'Villette', which is sourced from the earliest printings of Bronte's work. The text is supplemented with a commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in-depth analysis of the context

Professor, The. Oxford World's Classics by Charlotte Bronte( )

1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anne Bronte: "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Brontë( Book )

1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë( Recording )

1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

This novel depicts a mill owner, Robert, whose business is struggling and in turn rejects his attraction to an orphaned woman, Carolne, in favour of proposing to a rich landowner, Shirley. Shirley rejects him as she loves Robert's poor brother, Louis, but has too much pride to admit her feelings

The Professor by Charlotte Brontë( Book )

1 edition published in 2017 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Professor was Charlotte Bronte's first novel, completed as early as 1846. The central character is the reserved William Crimsworth, an English teacher at an all-girls' school in Brussels who falls in love with one of his own pupils. Based on the author's own experiences as a language student in Belgium, The Professor is the only novel in which Charlotte Bronte chose to use a male narrator. She would later rework the heart-felt story with a woman as the leading character in Villette