Charlotte
Brontë the woman.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13
Ellis BELL)
Wuthering Heights, a novel, by Ellis Bell. 3 vols. (in one). 1847. [Actually
vols. I and 11, Wuthering Heights; vol. III, Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell.
Each vol. has a separate title-page. ]
Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, by Ellis and Acton Bell. A new
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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I
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.
1848. Other edns: 1854, 1859.
Wildfell Hall. (The New Century library. ) 1905 (1904].
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. . . . With an introduction by Sinclair, May.
(Everyman's library. ) (1914).
BRONTË LETTERS
Letters recounting the deaths of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. . . . To
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.
AUTHORITIES, BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
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-
graphy by Anderson, J. T. ]
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.
Dembley, J. M. The key to the Brontë works. The key to Charlotte
Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and her other works. 1911.
[An attempt to prove that Charlotte Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. ]
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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Forçade, Eugène. Jane Eyre. Revue des Deux Mondes.
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1850.
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Branwell Brontë. 2 vols, 1886.
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to my descendants. (Ed. Birrell, A. ] 1896.
Mackay, Angus M. The Brontës. Fact and Fiction. 1897.
The Brontës at Cowan Bridge. The Bookman. Oct. 1904.
Martineau, Harriet. Biographical Sketches, 1852–75. Fourth edn. 1876.
Autobiography. 3 vols. 1877.
Masson, Flora. The Brontës. (People's Books. ) 1912.
Montégut, Émile. Écrivains Modernes de l'Angleterre. Première Série.
(Charlotte Brontë, Portrait Géneral, pp. 183-354. ) Paris, 1885.
Nicoll, Sir William Robertson. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English
Literature. Vol. III, pp. 520-7. 1903.
Nicoll, Sir W. R. and Wise, T. J. Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth
Century. 2 vols. 1896.
Oliphant, Margaret 0. Annals of a Publishing House. 2 vols. 1896. [See
vol. 11, pp. 177 ff. , for particulars concerning Branwell Brontë. ]
Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. Charlotte Brontë and Thackeray,
pp. 323–335. 1856.
P. , W. P. Jottings on Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. 1856.
Paul, H. The Victorian Novel. Men and Letters. 1901.
Raleigh, Sir Walter. English Prose Selections. Vol. v, pp. 625-7. 1896.
Ramsden, J. The Brontë Homeland. [1897].
Rawnsley, A. D. Literary Associations of the English Lakes. Vol. 11, pp. 94-
107. 1894.
Reid, Sir T. Wemyss. Charlotte Brontë, a monograph. 1877.
Richardson, afterwards Macdonald, Frederika. The Secret of Charlotte
Brontë. Followed by some reminiscences of the real Monsieur and
Madame Heger. 1914.
Rigby, Elizabeth (lady Eastlake). Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair. The
Quarterly Review. Vol. LXXXIV, pp. 153-185. Dec. 1848.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Chapters from Some Memories. 1894.
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Roscoe, William Caldwell. Poems and Essays. Vol. 11. 1860.
Saintsbury, George. Three Mid-Century Novelists. Corrected Impressions.
1895.
Scruton, W. The Birthplace of Charlotte Brontë. 1884.
Thornton and the Brontës. 1898.
Selden, Camille (pseud. ). Charlotte Brontë et la Vie Morale en Angleterre.
L'Esprit des Femmes de notre Temps. Pp. 83–218. Paris, 1865.
Sharp, W. Literary Geography. 1915.
Shepheard, Henry. A vindication of the Clergy Daughters School and of
the Rev. W. Carus Wilson from the Remarks in the Life of Charlotte
Brontë. Kirkby Lonsdale, 1857.
Shorter, Clement K. The Brontës and their Circle. 1896. Also (1914).
Charlotte Brontë and her sisters.
The Brontës. Life and Letters. Being an attempt to present a full
and final record of the lives of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and
Anne Brontë. 2 vols. 1908. [This work gives, with full connecting
narrative, 711 letters in chronological order, besides many valuable ap-
pendixes, notes and discussions, an index and several portraits. ]
Sinclair, May. The Three Brontës. . . . New edn, with an introductory note
on the recently discovered letters of Charlotte Brontë. 1914. [See, also,
the various Brontë novels ed. Sinclair, May. ]
Skelton, Sir John. Essays in History and Biography. Pp. 296-311. Edin-
burgh, 1883.
Smith, G.
Wuthering Heights, a novel, by Ellis Bell. 3 vols. (in one). 1847. [Actually
vols. I and 11, Wuthering Heights; vol. III, Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell.
Each vol. has a separate title-page. ]
Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, by Ellis and Acton Bell. A new
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
## p. 557 (#573) ############################################
XII]
The Brontës
557
I
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.
1848. Other edns: 1854, 1859.
Wildfell Hall. (The New Century library. ) 1905 (1904].
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. . . . With an introduction by Sinclair, May.
(Everyman's library. ) (1914).
BRONTË LETTERS
Letters recounting the deaths of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. . . . To
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.
AUTHORITIES, BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
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-
graphy by Anderson, J. T. ]
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.
Dembley, J. M. The key to the Brontë works. The key to Charlotte
Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and her other works. 1911.
[An attempt to prove that Charlotte Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. ]
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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558
[CH.
Bibliography
Tome XXIV,
Dobell, Sydney. The Life and Letters of S. D. Vol. 1, pp. 163-186. 1878. (For
particulars concerning Emily Brontë. ]
Fonblanque, Albany. Shirley. The Examiner. 1849.
Forçade, Eugène. Jane Eyre. Revue des Deux Mondes.
pp. 470-494.
1849. Shirley. Revue des Deux Mondes. Tome XL,
pp. 714-735. 1849.
Fotheringham, J. The Work of Emily Brontë and the Brontë Problem,
(Brontë society publications. Pt 11. ) 1900.
Gaskell, E. C. Life of Charlotte Brontë. 2 vols. 1857. 3rd edn, revised and
corrected. 2 vols. 1857. With introduction by Sinclair, May. (Every-
man's library. ) [1908. ] [See, also, the Thornton edn of the novels of the
sisters Brontë, 1910. ]
Goldring, Maude.
Charlotte Brontë the woman. 1915.
Gosse, E. W. The Challenge of the Brontës. 1903.
Grundy, F. H. Pictures of the Past. 1879.
Harrison, Frederic. Charlotte Brontë's Place in Literature. 1895.
Holroyd, A. Currer Bell. [1887. ]
James, Henry. The Lesson of Balzao. Atlantic Monthly. Pp. . 166-180.
Aug. 1905. [Incidentally a few words on the Brontës, p. 168. ]
Junge, H. Der Stil in den Romanen Charlotte Brontës, etc. 1912.
Lewes, George Henry. Jane Eyre. Fraser's Magazine. Vol. xxxvi, pp. 690–
694. 1847. Shirley. The Edinburgh Review, Vol. xci, pp. 153–173.
1850.
Leyland, F. A. The Brontë Family with special reference to Patrick
Branwell Brontë. 2 vols, 1886.
Locker-Lampson, F. My Confidences. An autobiographical sketch addressed
to my descendants. (Ed. Birrell, A. ] 1896.
Mackay, Angus M. The Brontës. Fact and Fiction. 1897.
The Brontës at Cowan Bridge. The Bookman. Oct. 1904.
Martineau, Harriet. Biographical Sketches, 1852–75. Fourth edn. 1876.
Autobiography. 3 vols. 1877.
Masson, Flora. The Brontës. (People's Books. ) 1912.
Montégut, Émile. Écrivains Modernes de l'Angleterre. Première Série.
(Charlotte Brontë, Portrait Géneral, pp. 183-354. ) Paris, 1885.
Nicoll, Sir William Robertson. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English
Literature. Vol. III, pp. 520-7. 1903.
Nicoll, Sir W. R. and Wise, T. J. Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth
Century. 2 vols. 1896.
Oliphant, Margaret 0. Annals of a Publishing House. 2 vols. 1896. [See
vol. 11, pp. 177 ff. , for particulars concerning Branwell Brontë. ]
Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. Charlotte Brontë and Thackeray,
pp. 323–335. 1856.
P. , W. P. Jottings on Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. 1856.
Paul, H. The Victorian Novel. Men and Letters. 1901.
Raleigh, Sir Walter. English Prose Selections. Vol. v, pp. 625-7. 1896.
Ramsden, J. The Brontë Homeland. [1897].
Rawnsley, A. D. Literary Associations of the English Lakes. Vol. 11, pp. 94-
107. 1894.
Reid, Sir T. Wemyss. Charlotte Brontë, a monograph. 1877.
Richardson, afterwards Macdonald, Frederika. The Secret of Charlotte
Brontë. Followed by some reminiscences of the real Monsieur and
Madame Heger. 1914.
Rigby, Elizabeth (lady Eastlake). Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair. The
Quarterly Review. Vol. LXXXIV, pp. 153-185. Dec. 1848.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Chapters from Some Memories. 1894.
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The Brontës
559
Roscoe, William Caldwell. Poems and Essays. Vol. 11. 1860.
Saintsbury, George. Three Mid-Century Novelists. Corrected Impressions.
1895.
Scruton, W. The Birthplace of Charlotte Brontë. 1884.
Thornton and the Brontës. 1898.
Selden, Camille (pseud. ). Charlotte Brontë et la Vie Morale en Angleterre.
L'Esprit des Femmes de notre Temps. Pp. 83–218. Paris, 1865.
Sharp, W. Literary Geography. 1915.
Shepheard, Henry. A vindication of the Clergy Daughters School and of
the Rev. W. Carus Wilson from the Remarks in the Life of Charlotte
Brontë. Kirkby Lonsdale, 1857.
Shorter, Clement K. The Brontës and their Circle. 1896. Also (1914).
Charlotte Brontë and her sisters.
The Brontës. Life and Letters. Being an attempt to present a full
and final record of the lives of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and
Anne Brontë. 2 vols. 1908. [This work gives, with full connecting
narrative, 711 letters in chronological order, besides many valuable ap-
pendixes, notes and discussions, an index and several portraits. ]
Sinclair, May. The Three Brontës. . . . New edn, with an introductory note
on the recently discovered letters of Charlotte Brontë. 1914. [See, also,
the various Brontë novels ed. Sinclair, May. ]
Skelton, Sir John. Essays in History and Biography. Pp. 296-311. Edin-
burgh, 1883.
Smith, G.
