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Sometimes she'll whip up a Brontë sister , which is an essentially somber dress with some feminine furbelow--a row of tiny covered buttons, perhaps--to hint that the wearer has hidden fires banked beneath her peplum.
Susan Pearson is character in Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley (1849).
This section contains papers about Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero (Leonard R.N. Ashley); Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (Lynn Hamilton); Anna Seghers' Revolt of the Fishers (Russell E. Brown), Molière's Le Malade imaginaire (Betty J. Davis), Baltasar Gracián's El Criticón (Catherine G. Rovira); Trollope's The Warden (Vivian Zinkin); and Names Prime Evil: Fictional Heroes of Horror and Fear in the work of Sir Walter Scott and Barbey d'Aurevilly (Maxine M. Bernard).
Newsweek 's Jeff Giles calls it a "hokey tragic romance" and Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman says it "reads like a high school essay--'write the story as if you were Charlotte Brontë.
Also in this group, I would say, are Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1846), not “Weathering,” “Withering,” or any similar fancy, and, admittedly more trickily, Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow (1921), not `Chrome,” although of course the pun on this word is intentional.