The Brontes, living in an isolated village in Yorkshire, wrote some of the most vivid, imaginative, and widely-read novels of the Victorian Age; they also became the subject-matter of romanticized anecdotes and regrettably distorted biographies. The best testimony about what kinds of men and women they really were comes from statements they made themselves; but because their autobiographical commentaries are sparse, the record is usefully supplemented in this anthology by first-hand statements made not only by various inhabitants of Haworth, but by those who met members of the Bronte family in Yorkshire, London, and elsewhere.
| ISBN | 0333663144 | | Pages | 240 | | ISBN13 | 9780333663141
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 327 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Series title | Interviews & Recollections S. | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 215 | | Publication date | 04 Dec 1996 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 823.809 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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Introduction - T.Wemyss Reid, 'The Little Family of the Brontes', in Charlotte Bronte/A Monograph; Charlotte Bronte - 'A Visitor Comes to the Parsonage', in Mrs Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte; Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 'Charlotte, Emily, and Miss Wooler', in The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt K.C.B./A Memoir; Ellen Nussey, - 'Reminiscences of Charlotte Bronte', in Scribner's Magazine; Emily and Anne Bronte - 'A Diary Note'; Patrick Branwell Bronte, - 'A Letter to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine'; Patrick Branwell Bronte, - 'A Letter to William Wordsworth'; Emily and Anne Bronte - 'A Diary Note' in Bronte Society Transactions; Arthur Christopher Benson - 'Charlotte Bronte as a Governess', in The Life of Edward White Benson/Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury; Francis A.Leyland - 'The Changing Moods of Branwell Bronte, in The Bronte Family/With Special Reference to Patrick Branwell Bronte; Emily Bronte - 'A Diary Note' - Mrs Strickland, 'Charlotte and the White Family of Rawdon', in The Westminster Gazette; Anne Bronte - 'A Diary Note'; Francis H. Grundy - 'The Decline and Fall of Branwell Bronte, in Pictures of the Past: Memories of Men I Have Met and Places I Have Seen; Patrick Branwell Bronte - 'A Letter to Francis H. Grundy'; Dorothy Melling - 'A Personal Note', in The Brontes, edited by E.M. Delafield; Charlotte Bronte - 'A Boarding School for Young Ladies'; Charlotte Bronte - 'Four Letters to M. Heger' in The Brontes/Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, edited by Thomas J. Wise and J. Alexander Symington; Emily Bronte - 'A Diary Note'; Anne Bronte - 'A Diary Note'; Patrick Branwell Bronte - 'The Thorp Green Affair'; Harriet Martineau - 'A Personal Impression of Charlotte Bronte' in Biographical Sketches; George M. Smith - 'Charlotte Bronte' in Cornhill Magazine; William Makepeace Thackeray - 'Impressions of Charlotte Bronte' in The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray; William Makepeace Thackeray - 'The Last Sketch', (Introduction to Emma, by Charlotte Bronte) in Cornhill Magazine; Mary Taylor - 'Letters from New Zealand to Charlotte Bronte' in Mary Taylor/Friend of Charlotte Bronte/Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere, edited by Joan Stevens; Anne Bronte - 'Letter to the Reverend David Thom'; Harriet Martineau - 'Charlotte Bronte's Reaction to Criticism', in Autobiography; Catherine Winkworth, et al - 'Letters about Charlotte and Her Marriage', in Memorials of Two Sisters/Susanna and Catherine Winkworth; Charlotte Bronte - 'Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell'; Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 'Letters about Charlotte Bronte', in The Letters of Mrs Gaskell Anne Thackeray Ritchie, 'Charlotte Bronte's Appearance', in Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie; John Stores Smith - 'Personal Reminiscences. A Day with Charlotte Bronte', in The Free Lance: A Journal of Humour and Criticism; Charles and Frances Brookfield - 'A Party for Charlotte Bronte', in Mrs Brookfield and Her Circle; William Scruton - 'A Stroller's Interview with Charlotte Bronte' and 'Martha Brown', in Thornton and the Brontes; Frank Smith - 'An Offer of a Living to Mr Nicholls', in The Life and Work of Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth; Patrick Bronte - 'Two Autobiographical Letters Sent to Mrs Gaskell', in A Man of Sorrow/The Life, Letters and Times of the Rev. Patrick Bronte, by John Lock and Canon W.T. Dixon; H.K. Bell - 'Charlotte Bronte's Husband. His Later Life and Surroundings', in Cornhill Magazine; Anonymous - 'A Winter-Day at Haworth' in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art - William Cory, 'What Charlotte Bronte Meant to an Eton Schoolboy', in Extracts from the Letters and Journals of William Cory;Cautley Holmes Cautley - 'Old Haworth Folk Who Knew the Brontes, in Cornhill Magazine
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