Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to any or all of the Brontë sisters, English writers of the 1840s and 1850s, or to their works or style.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Martin's unwillingness to indulge the reader in neo-Victorian lushness reappears in his unwillingness to indulge the reader in Brontean color, whether geographical or historical.
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Martin's unwillingness to indulge the reader in neo-Victorian lushness reappears in his unwillingness to indulge the reader in Brontean color, whether geographical or historical.
Branwell 2007
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I hastily note here that I like The Morgesons, which has an intense, quasi-Brontean effect; the Memoirs..., however, is really rather a bore.
Editorial 2006
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I hastily note here that I like The Morgesons, which has an intense, quasi-Brontean effect; the Memoirs..., however, is really rather a bore.
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While the result may be pulp "Victorian," it certainly isn't Brontean.
Emma Brown 2005
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Twilight's romantically conceived Cullens perfectly distill puberty's attraction to fear-they symbolize confused, Brontean sex.
BrontëBlog 2008
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To add Brontean texture, Boylan borrows situations from CB's Jane Eyre and Villette, EB's Wuthering Heights, and AB's Agnes Grey.
Emma Brown 2005
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