It is with pleasure and excitement that I introduce Dr. Sarah Fanning as the new Editor of Bronte Studies.Last summer, when long-standing editor Amber Adams advised us her intention to retire, t...

Biography Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, the elder daughter of lawyer Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Dickinson was the second of three children, a year younger than her brother, William, and three years older than her sister, Lavinia. She was born in a large house built by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson; except for a...

The present study examines the effect of gender ideology of the translators on two Persian translations of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The findings reveal that although both translations have many similar features in respect to some maxims of translation, in both of them gender ideology of the translator is a key figure in translating the gender related items/parts of the source text, as ...

The fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien has captivated readers for the past five decades, perhaps because it portrays a world so drastically different from our own. Middle-earth is indeed informed by vestiges of an ancient tradition, preserved in the mythologies of different cultures. One very good example of this is Tolkien‟s theory of courage, which he gleaned from Old Norse myth and discussed in his l...

Rosemarie Sadsad, Geoff McDonnell, Joe Viana, Shivam M. Desai, Paul Harper and Sally Brailsford Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Director UNSW, Bronte, Australia School of Management, University of Southampton, UK Department of Management, University of Southampton, UK School of Mathematics, University of Cardiff, UK Southampton Management School, University...

The aim of this study is to examine Charlotte Bronte‘s contribution to the feminist question in her selected novel Jane Eyre. The study shows how Bronte‘s novel examines the suffering of women and how they could overcome difficulties and achieve success.It is clear that Charlotte ideology in her portrayal of her heroine based on her real world, established herself as a distinguished feminist wo...

for Beckman Foundation Conference Investigation of the Unimolecular Dissociation of CH3SO2 As coal-burning technologies expand, introducing sulfur-containing molecules into the atmosphere, it is increasingly imperative to understand the reactions of the CH3SO2 radical. While the radicals and their dissociation products, CH3 + SO2, play a significant role in the atmospheric oxidation cascade of ...

We report the investigation of the organisation of proper names in two aphasic patients (NBC and FBI). The performance of both patients on spoken word to written word matching tasks was inconsistent, affected by presentation rate and semantic relatedness of the competing responses, all hallmarks of a refractory semantic access dysphasia. In a series of experiments we explored the semantic relat...