Besarab O. Typology of female images in the novels by Charlotte Bronte.

The object - juvenilia by Ch. Bronte ("Marian v. Zenobia", "Mary", "Mina Laury", "Stancliffe's hotel", included into collection of "Tales of Angria" as well as the novels of the mature period of creative activity of Ch. Bronte ("Jane Eyre", "Shirley", "Villette"). The goal - to identify a typology of female characters in prose by Charlotte Bront?. The methods - comparative, inductive, literary-historical, typological. The dissertation deals with peculiarities of female types created by Ch. Bronte in the course of her literary activity starting from her juvenile "Tales of Angria", which were not studied previously, to her well-known novels. Ch. Bronte's female characters are analyzed in the context of English literature of the first half of the XIX century in comparison with the types of characters created in the works of the Romantics (G. Byron, P. Shelley, W. Scott) and the writers of the "brilliant pleiad of novelists" (Ch. Dickens, W. Thackeray, E. Gaskell), and in the context of the urgent issues of gender and feminism. Some recognizable typological models of female characters that correlate with the main literary trends of the period are revealed; national identity of the female image, as embodied in the works of Charlotte Bronte, is identified. The essence of the writer's creative influence on the solution of "women's issue", which takes on national flavour, reflecting the specificity of conservative English mentality, is also cleared up. Scope - the process of study.