![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thackeray, for example, once tried to flirt with Charlotte Brontë by talking about the ‘naughty’ books they both wrote. Most of his contemporaries that we still read were not so cautious. No amount of biographical research has conquered this respectable lack of intimacy. Perhaps this is why I almost always mentally refer to him as Mr – there’s something about him that keeps me at a distance. Not only was he the most popular novelist, he made sure that ladies could read his stories without wandering outside the boundaries of respectability. No one questions the supremacy of Mr Dickens in the realm of the Victorian novel. Tags age art austen bible c bronte childhood christianity class conformity dad death depression dickens divorce education ethnicity family fantasy faulkner feminism film france gay gender geo eliot god gothic happiness him history horror identity islam isolation justice ksa life language lawrence lesbian library life love magic marriage mental health misogyny mom murder music mystery mythology nature nature love north carolina politics psychology racism rape religion sex sexuality shakespeare society suicide teaching television the closet the ex united kingdom united states victorian w collins work world war i world war ii. ![]()
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