Preceded
by a short notice
by W.
by W.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13
With this is rptd Thackeray's article The Last Sketch, intro-
ductory to Emma, which first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine, April
1860.
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to the works by Ward, Mrs Humphry, and an introduction and notes to
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The Works of the Brontës. (Temple edn. ) 12 vols. 1901.
The Thornton edn of the Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Ed. Scott, Temple.
(The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Gaskell, E. C. . . . rptd from the first edn
and ed. with introduction and notes by Scott, T. and Willett, B. W. )
12 vols. 1901.
The Novels and Poems of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë (with an
introduction to The Professor by Watts-Dunton, Theodore). (The
World's Classics. ) 7 vols. 1901—7.
The Novels of the Sisters Brontë. 10 vols. 1905.
The Complete Works of Charlotte Brontë and her sisters. (The Book
Lovers' edn. ) 7 vols. [1905].
Brontë Poems: selections from the poetry of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and
Branwell Brontë. Ed. with an introduction by Benson, A. C. With
portraits and facsimiles. 1915.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË AFTERWARDS NICHOLLS (PSEUD. CURRER BELL)
MSS in the British Museum
Additional MS 34255. Tales written under the pseudonym Lord C. A. F.
Wellesley, 1834-5. A bound volume of 44 folios written on each side.
Contains two tales: The Spell and High Life in Verdopolis. At the end
is The Scrap Book A Mingling of Many Things Compiled by Lord
C. A. F. Wellesley. The various contributions are, in most cases, signed
Charlotte Brontë in addition to the pseudonym; the bulk of the MS is in
a feigned hand.
38732. Four letters [in French] from Charlotte Brontë to Constantin
Heger, 1844–5. These letters were previously supposed to have been
destroyed; some pages have been torn in pieces and afterwards recon-
structed. They appeared in The Times, with translations by Spielmann,
Marion H. , 29 July 1913; afterwards rptd as the The Love Letters of
Charlotte Brontë to Constantin Heger (with Spielmann's translations
and a prefatory note by Wise, T. J. ]. 1914. [30 copies privately ptd for
Wise, T. J. ] See, also, Richardson, Frederika, The Secret of Charlotte
Brontë, 1914.
Egerton MS 2679, f. 28. Letter to J. Hogg, 1850.
2829, f. 14. Letter to W. S. Williams, 1848.
Single Works
Jane Eyre, an Autobiography, by Currer Bell. 3 vols. 1847. Second edn.
3 vols. 1848. Third edn. 3 vols. 1848. Fourth edn. 1848. 2 vols. (in
one). Leipzig, 1850. Other edns: 1857 and 1858. Haworth edn.
2 vols. 1884. With an introduction by Shorter, C. K. (The Camelot
Classics. ) [1889. ) To which is added The Moores, an unpublished
fragment. . . with introduction by Nicoll, Sir W. R. 1902. With intro-
duction by Sinclair, May. (Everyman's library. ) [1908. ) Illustrated.
. . . Introduction by Shorter, C. K. 1911.
A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family, being a tenth extract
from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P. P. of Drum-
coolagh. Dublin University Magazine. Pp. 398, 415. October 1839.
[This story by Le Fana was rptd in The Purcell Papers, by
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EMILY JANE BRONTË (PSEUD. Ellis BELL)
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vols. I and 11, Wuthering Heights; vol. III, Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell.
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edn revised, with a biographical notice of the authors, a selection from
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[Additional poems by Emily and Anne Brontë first appeared in this edn. ]
Leipzig, 1851. Other edns: 1858, 1872, 1885.
Wuthering Heights. Poems. (The New Century library. ) 1905 [1904).
The Complete Works of Emily Brontë. (Ed. Shorter, Clement K. With
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British Museum.
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1857; Oliphant, Margaret 0. , Annals of a Publishing House, vol. 11, 1896;
and Leyland, F. A. , The Brontë Family, 2 vols. , 1886 (passim).
For Branwell Brontë's literary fragments see Benson, A. C. , Brontë
Poems, 1915; Leyland, F. A. , The Brontë Family; and vol. 11, pp. 177 ff. , of
Mrs Oliphant's Annals of a Publishing House.
And for particulars concerning the father of the Brontës see Brontëana.
The Rev. Patrick Brontë. . . his collected works and life. The works; and
the Brontës of Ireland, ed. by Turner, J. Horsfall, 1898; also, Yates, W. W. ,
The Father of the Brontes, 1897.
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Arnold, Matthew. Haworth Churchyard. Fraser's Magazine. Vol. LI,
pp. 527-530. 1855.
Lyric and Elegiac Poetry. 1885.
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Chadwick, Esther A. In the Footsteps of the Brontës. 1914.
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Dimnet, Ernest. Les Spurs Brontë. 1910.
Dobell, Sydney. Currer Bell. The Palladium. Pp. 161-175. Sept. 1850. Rptd
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to the works by Ward, Mrs Humphry, and an introduction and notes to
the life by Shorter, C. K. With photographic illustrations, portraits,
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portraits and facsimiles. 1915.
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Wellesley, 1834-5. A bound volume of 44 folios written on each side.
Contains two tales: The Spell and High Life in Verdopolis. At the end
is The Scrap Book A Mingling of Many Things Compiled by Lord
C. A. F. Wellesley. The various contributions are, in most cases, signed
Charlotte Brontë in addition to the pseudonym; the bulk of the MS is in
a feigned hand.
38732. Four letters [in French] from Charlotte Brontë to Constantin
Heger, 1844–5. These letters were previously supposed to have been
destroyed; some pages have been torn in pieces and afterwards recon-
structed. They appeared in The Times, with translations by Spielmann,
Marion H. , 29 July 1913; afterwards rptd as the The Love Letters of
Charlotte Brontë to Constantin Heger (with Spielmann's translations
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3 vols. 1848. Third edn. 3 vols. 1848. Fourth edn. 1848. 2 vols. (in
one). Leipzig, 1850. Other edns: 1857 and 1858. Haworth edn.
2 vols. 1884. With an introduction by Shorter, C. K. (The Camelot
Classics. ) [1889. ) To which is added The Moores, an unpublished
fragment. . . with introduction by Nicoll, Sir W. R. 1902. With intro-
duction by Sinclair, May. (Everyman's library. ) [1908. ) Illustrated.
. . . Introduction by Shorter, C. K. 1911.
A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family, being a tenth extract
from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P. P. of Drum-
coolagh. Dublin University Magazine. Pp. 398, 415. October 1839.
[This story by Le Fana was rptd in The Purcell Papers, by
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in the Dublin University Magazine, vol. xxxi, pp. 608-614, 1848. ]
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edn revised, with a biographical notice of the authors, a selection from
their literary remains, and a preface, by Currer Bell. 3 vols. 1850.
[Additional poems by Emily and Anne Brontë first appeared in this edn. ]
Leipzig, 1851. Other edns: 1858, 1872, 1885.
Wuthering Heights. Poems. (The New Century library. ) 1905 [1904).
The Complete Works of Emily Brontë. (Ed. Shorter, Clement K. With
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introductory essay by Nicoll, Sir W. R. ) 1910, etc. (Vol. 1 contains
138 additional poems, of which 67 had been privately ptd in 1902. ]
Poems of Emily Brontë. With an introduction by Symons, A. (Favourite
Classics. ) 1906.
ANNE BRONTË (PSEUD. ACTON BELL)
Agnes Grey. See Brontë, Emily, under Wuthering Heights.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Acton Bell. 3 vols. 1848. Second edn.
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Wildfell Hall. (The New Century library. ) 1905 (1904].
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(Everyman's library. ) (1914).
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which are added letters ed Currer Bell and C. B. Nicholls. [30 copies
privately ptd for Wise, T. J. ) 1913.
Letters of Charlotte Brontë. See, ante, Brontë, Charlotte: MSS in the
British Museum.
See, also, Gaskell, Elizabeth C. , The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2 vols. ,
1857; Oliphant, Margaret 0. , Annals of a Publishing House, vol. 11, 1896;
and Leyland, F. A. , The Brontë Family, 2 vols. , 1886 (passim).
For Branwell Brontë's literary fragments see Benson, A. C. , Brontë
Poems, 1915; Leyland, F. A. , The Brontë Family; and vol. 11, pp. 177 ff. , of
Mrs Oliphant's Annals of a Publishing House.
And for particulars concerning the father of the Brontës see Brontëana.
The Rev. Patrick Brontë. . . his collected works and life. The works; and
the Brontës of Ireland, ed. by Turner, J. Horsfall, 1898; also, Yates, W. W. ,
The Father of the Brontes, 1897.
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Arnold, Matthew. Haworth Churchyard. Fraser's Magazine. Vol. LI,
pp. 527-530. 1855.
Lyric and Elegiac Poetry. 1885.
Benson, A. C. Brontë Poems. 1915.
Birrell, A. Life of Charlotte Brontë. (Great Writers series. ) 1887. [Biblio-
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Brontë Society, Transactions and Publications of the. Bradford, 1895, etc.
Brown, Robinson. Catalogue of the Museum of Brontë Relics, the property
of Mr R. Brown. (1898).
Catalogue of the Gleave Brontë Collection at the Moss Side Free Library.
1905.
Catalogue of Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Relics of Charlotte Brontë,
sold at Sotheby's 19 June 1914.
Chadwick, Esther A. In the Footsteps of the Brontës. 1914.
Christian Remembrancer, The. Jane Eyre, vol. xv, N. S. pp. 396-409, 1848;
Villette, vol. xxv, N. S. , pp. 423-443, 1853; Mrs Gaskell’s Life, vol. xxxiv,
N. S. pp. 87-145, 1857.
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Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and her other works. 1911.
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Dimnet, Ernest. Les Spurs Brontë. 1910.
Dobell, Sydney. Currer Bell. The Palladium. Pp. 161-175. Sept. 1850. Rptd
in The Life and Letters of S. D. , vol. 1, pp. 163-186, 1878. [The best
criticism of Wuthering Heights. ]
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