Jane Austin 1775 - 1817
1811 - Sense and Sensibility
1813 - Pride and Predudice
1814 - Mansfield Park
1815 - Emma
1817 - Northanger Abbey
1817 - Persuation
The themes throughout all of her novels are Love, Relationships, Manners, Upbringing, Moral Rightness and Education.
She was known as a romance novelist. All of her stories have either been recreated for film or television series, if not for both.
The Bronte Sisters 1816 - 1855
Charlotte was the eldest followed by Emily 2 years later and then Anne a further 2 years after that.
1833 - Charlotte's The Green Dwarf
1847 - Charlotte's Jane Ayre
Emily's Wuthering Heights
Anne's Agnes Grey
1848 - Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Emily dies
1849 - Charlotte's Shirley
Anne dies
1853 - Charloote's Vilette
1855 - Charlotte dies
1857 - Charlotte's The Professor
All of the Bronte sisters were talented novelists, poets and letter writers. Their father was a priest and they had a brother, who painted this picture, then painted himself out.
They grew up in Howarth in the Parsonage looking out over a graveyard set in front of a Moors. This is a very similar setting to that within Wuthering Heights. Suggesting the girls wrote to satisfy their imaginations, due to the lack of things to do.
The wrote under Pen Names in their same initials;
Charlotte Bronte - Currer Bell, Emily Bronte - Ellis Bell, Anne Bronte - Acton Bell.
George Eliot 1819 - 1880
1857 - Adam Bede
1860 - The Mill on the Floss
1861 - Silas Marner
1863 - Romola
1866 - Felix Holt, The Radical
1871-1872 - Middlemarch
1876 - Daniel Deronda
George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans.
She is now well known for her realism and Psychological insight. She used a male pen name to ensure her works were taken seriously and to evade contemporary prejudice against female writers.
Nineteenth Century Male Literature
1836-37 - CM The Posthumous Papers of Pickwick Club
1837-39 - CM The Adventures of Oliver Twist
1838-39 - CM The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
(and many more past the years of my interest)
A lot of Charles Dickens’ books were originally written in the format of Monthly Serials (CM).
He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work.
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1890-1892
1830 - Chiefly Lyrical
The Dying Swan
Kranken
Mariana
1832 - Lady Clara Vere De Vere
1833 - Poems
The Lotos-Eaters
The Lady of Shalott
(and many more past the years of my interest)
Alfred Lord Tennyson was Poet Laureate during most of Queen Victoria’s Reign.
He was a very famous poet. His work is quite suggestive to the idea that he loved his sister’s husband, Arthur Hallam. Especially the work he produced after Hallam’s death. He even visited Hallam’s grave whilst on his honeymoon!
Consulate Style - Neoclassicism
Consulate Style
Term used to describe the continuation in the decorative arts of the Neo-classical style in France between 1800 and 1805 under Napoleon Bonaparte (First Consul; 1799-1804). His Consulate was an era of renewal in the furniture, porcelain and metalwork industries in France.
Neoclassicism Neoclassicism has many branches. With regards to clothing it refers to the Greek Renewal. This means the Grecian necklines and hairstyles on women. The higher waistbands.
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