actually commenced a school--and, if Emily could share them with me,
only for a single half-year, we could take a footing in the world
afterwards which we can never do now. I say Emily instead of Anne;
for Anne might take her turn at some future period, if our school
answered. I feel certain, while I am writing, that you will see the
propriety of what I say; you always like to use your money to the
best advantage; you are not fond of making shabby purchases; when you
do confer a favour, it is often done in style; and depend upon it 50,
or 100 pounds, thus laid out, would be well employed. Of course, I
know no other friend in the world to whom I could apply on this
subject except yourself. I feel an absolute conviction that, if this
advantage were allowed us, it would be the making of us for life.
Papa will perhaps think it a wild and ambitious scheme; but who ever
rose in the world without ambition? When he left Ireland to go to
Cambridge University, he was as ambitious as I am now. I want us all
to go on. I know we have talents, and I want them to be turned to
account. I look to you, aunt, to help us. I think you will not
refuse. I know, if you consent, it shall not be my fault if you ever
repent your kindness. With love to all, and the hope that you are
all well,--Believe me, dear aunt, your affectionate niece,
'MISS BRANWELL. C. BRONTE.'
_Mrs. Gaskell's_ '_Life_.' _Corrected and completed from original letter
in the possession of Mr. A. B. Nicholls_.
{107} Miss Mary Dixon, the sister of Mr. George Dixon, M.P., is still
alive, but she has unfortunately not preserved her letters from Charlotte
Bronte.
{109a} 'The Brontes at Brussels,' by Frederika Macdonald.--_The Woman at
Home_, July 1894.
{109b} This statement has received the separate endorsement of the Rev.
A. B. Nicholls and of Miss Ellen Nussey.
{110} M. and Mme. Heger celebrated their golden wedding in 1888, but
Mme. Heger died the next year. M. Constantin Heger lived to be
eighty-seven years of age, dying at 72 Rue Nettoyer, Brussels, on the 6th
of May 1896. He was born in Brussels in 1809, took part in the Belgian
revolution of 1830, and fought in the war of independence against the
Dutch. He was twice married, and it was his second wife who was
associated with Charlotte Bronte. She started the school in the Rue
d'Isabelle, and M. Heger took charge of the upper French classes. In an
obituary article written by M. Colin of _L'Etoile Belge_ in _The Sketch_
(June 5, 1896), which was revised by Dr. Heger, the only son of M. Heger,
it is stated that Charlotte Bronte was piqued at being refused permission
to return to the Pensionnat a third time, and that _Villette_ was her
revenge. We know that this was not the case. The Pensionnat Heger was
removed in 1894 to the Avenue Louise. The building in the Rue d'Isabelle
will shortly be pulled down.
{121} _Pictures of the Past_, by Francis H. Grundy, C.E: Griffith &
Farran, 1879; _Emily Bronte_, by A. Mary F. Robinson: W. H. Allen, 1883;
_The Bronte Family_, _with Special Reference to Patrick Branwell Bronte_,
by Francis A. Leyland: Hurst & Blackett, 2 vols. 1886.
{123} After Mr. Bronte's death Mr. Nicholls removed it to Ireland.
Being of opinion that the only accurate portrait was that of Emily, he
cut this out and destroyed the remainder. The portrait of Emily was
given to Martha Brown, the servant, on one of her visits to Mr. Nicholls,
and I have not been able to trace it. There are three or four so-called
portraits of Emily in existence, but they are all repudiated by Mr.
Nicholls as absolutely unlike her. The supposed portrait which appeared
in _The Woman at Home_ for July 1894 is now known to have been merely an
illustration from a 'Book of Beauty,' and entirely spurious.
{138} There are two portraits of Branwell in existence, both of them in
the possession of Mr. Nicholls. One of them is a medallion by his friend
Leyland, the other the silhouette which accompanies this chapter. They
both suggest, mainly on account of the clothing, a man of more mature
years than Branwell actually attained to.
{142} In the _Mirror_, 1872, Mr. Phillips, under the pseudonym of
'January Searle,' wrote a readable biography of Wordsworth.
{145a} Charlotte writes from Dewsbury Moor (October 2, 1836):--'My
sister Emily is gone into a situation as teacher in a large school of
near forty pupils, near Halifax. I have had one letter from her since
her departure--it gives an appalling account of her duties. Hard labour
from six in the morning until near eleven at night, with only one
half-hour of exercise between. This is slavery. I fear she will never
stand it.'--Mrs. Gaskell's _Life_.
{145b} _Haworth Churchyard_, _April_ 1855, by Matthew Arnold. Macmillan
& Co.
{158} See chap. xiii., page 346.
{159} A dog, referred to elsewhere as Flossie, junior.
{161} It was sent to Mr. Williams on six half-sheets of note-paper and
was preserved by him.
{163} Although _Jane Eyre_ has been dramatised by several hands, the
play has never been as popular as one might suppose from a story of such
thrilling incident. I can find no trace of the particular version which
is referred to in this letter, but in the next year the novel was
dramatised by John Brougham, the actor and dramatist, and produced in New
York on March 26, 1849. Brougham is rather an interesting figure. An
Irishman by birth, he had a chequered experience of every phase of
theatrical life both in London and New York. It was he who adapted 'The
Queen's Motto' and 'Lady Audley's Secret,' and he collaborated with Dion
Boucicault in 'London Assurance.' In 1849 he seems to have been managing
Niblo's Garden in New York, and in the following year the Lyceum Theatre
in Broadway. Miss Wemyss took the title role in _Jane Eyre_, J. Gilbert
was Rochester, and Mrs. J. Gilbert was Lady Ingram; and though the play
proved only moderately successful, it was revived in 1856 at Laura
Keene's Varieties at New York, with Laura Keene as Jane Eyre. This
version has been published by Samuel French, and is also in Dick's _Penny
Plays_. Divided into five Acts and twelve scenes, Brougham starts the
story at Lowood Academy. The second Act introduces us to Rochester's
house, and the curtain descends in the fourth as Jane announces that the
house is in flames. At the end of the fifth, Brougham reproduced
_verbatim_ much of the conversation of the dialogue between Rochester and
Jane. Perhaps the best-known dramatisation of the novel was that by the
late W. G. Wills, who divided the story into four Acts. His play was
produced on Saturday, December 23, 1882, at the Globe Theatre, by Mrs.
Bernard-Beere, with the following cast:--
_Jane Eyre_ Mrs. Bernard-Beere
_Lady Ingram_ Miss Carlotta Leclercq
_Blanche Ingram_ Miss Kate Bishop
_Mary Ingram_ Miss Maggie Hunt
_Miss Beechey_ Miss Nellie Jordan
_Mrs. Fairfax_ Miss Alexes Leighton
_Grace Poole_ Miss Masson
_Bertha_ Miss D'Almaine
_Adele_ Mdlle. Clemente Colle
_Mr. Rochester_ Mr. Charles Kelly
_Lord Desmond_ Mr. A. M. Denison
_Rev. Mr. Price_ Mr. H. E. Russel
_Nat Lee_ Mr. H. H. Cameron
_James_ Mr. C. Stevens
Mr. Wills confined the story to Thornfield Hall. One critic described
the drama at the time as 'not so much a play as a long conversation.' A
few years ago James Willing made a melodrama of _Jane Eyre_ under the
title of _Poor Relations_. This piece was performed at the Standard,
Surrey, and Park Theatres. A version of the story, dramatised by
Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, called _Die Waise von Lowood_, has been rather
popular in Germany.
{168a} Alexander Harris wrote _A Converted Atheist's Testimony to the
Truth of Christianity_, and other now forgotten works.
{168b} Julia Kavanagh (1824-1877). Her father, M. P. Kavanagh, wrote
_The Wanderings of Lucan and Dinah_, a poetical romance, and other works.
Miss Kavanagh was born at Thurles and died at Nice. Her first book, _The
Three Paths_, a tale for children, was published in 1847. _Madeline_, a
story founded on the life of a peasant girl of Auvergne, in 1848. _Women
in France during the Eighteenth Century_ appeared in 1850, _Nathalie_ the
same year. In the succeeding years she wrote innumerable stories and
biographical sketches.
{173} It runs thus:--
'_December_ 9_th_, 1848.
'The patient, respecting whose case Dr. Epps is consulted, and for
whom his opinion and advice are requested, is a female in her 29th
year. A peculiar reserve of character renders it difficult to draw
from her all the symptoms of her malady, but as far as they can be
ascertained they are as follows:--
Her appetite failed; she evinced a continual thirst, with a craving for
acids, and required a constant change of beverage. In appearance she
grew rapidly emaciated; her pulse--the only time she allowed it to be
felt--was found to be 115 per minute. The patient usually appeared worse
in the forenoon, she was then frequently exhausted and drowsy; toward
evening she often seemed better.
'Expectoration accompanies the cough. The shortness of breath is
aggravated by the slightest exertion. The patient's sleep is
supposed to be tolerably good at intervals, but disturbed by
paroxysms of coughing. Her resolution to contend against illness
being very fixed, she has never consented to lie in bed for a single
day--she sits up from 7 in the morning till 10 at night. All medical
aid she has rejected, insisting that Nature should be left to take
her own course. She has taken no medicine, but occasionally, a mild
aperient and Locock's cough wafers, of which she has used about 3 per
diem, and considers their effect rather beneficial. Her diet, which
she regulates herself, is very simple and light.
'The patient has hitherto enjoyed pretty good health, though she has
never looked strong, and the family constitution is not supposed to
be robust. Her temperament is highly nervous. She has been
accustomed to a sedentary and studious life.
'If Dr. Epps can, from what has here been stated, give an opinion on
the case and prescribe a course of treatment, he will greatly oblige
the patient's friends.
'Address--Miss Bronte, Parsonage, Haworth, Bradford, Yorks.'
{183a} The original of this letter is lost, so that it is not possible
to fill in the hiatus.
{183b} Emily--who was called the Major, because on one occasion she
guarded Miss Nussey from the attentions of Mr. Weightman during an
evening walk.
{190} In his next letter Mr. Williams informed her that Miss Rigby was
the writer of the _Quarterly_ article.
{221} In Hathersage Church is the altar tomb of Robert Eyre who fought
at Agincourt and died on the 21st of May 1459, also of his wife Joan Eyre
who died on the 9th of May 1464. This Joan Eyre was heiress of the house
of Padley, and brought the Padley estates into the Eyre family. There is
a Sanctus bell of the fifteenth century with a Latin inscription, 'Pray
for the souls of Robert Eyre and Joan his wife.'--Rev. Thomas Keyworth on
'Morton Village and _Jane Eyre_'--a paper read before the Bronte Society
at Keighley, 1895.
{259a} _Miss Miles_, _or A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago_, by
Mary Taylor. Rivingtons, 1890.
{259b} _The First Duty of Women_. A Series of Articles reprinted from
the _Victorian Magazine_, 1865 to 1870, by Mary Taylor. 1870.
{262} See letter to Ellen Nussey, page 78.
{275} Miss Bronte was paid 1500 pounds in all for her three novels, and
Mr. Nicholls received an additional 250 pounds for the copyright of _The
Professor_.
{280} A Mr. Hodgson is spoken of earlier, but he would seem to have been
only a temporary help.
{282} Referring to a present of birds which the curate had sent to Miss
Nussey.
{287} A Funeral Sermon for the late Rev. William Weightman, M.A.,
preached in the Church at Haworth on Sunday the 2nd of October 1842 by
the Rev. Patrick Bronte, A.B., Incumbent. The profits, if any, to go in
aid of the Sunday School. Halifax--Printed by J. U. Walker, George
Street, 1842. Price sixpence.
{288} A little dog, called in the next letter 'Flossie, junr.,' which
indicates its parentage. Flossy was the little dog given by the
Robinsons to Anne.
{325} The originals are in the possession of Mr. Alfred Morrison of
Carlton House Terrace, London.
{330} _De Quincey Memorials_, by Alexander H. Japp. 2 vols. 1891.
William Heinemann.
{332a} _Agnes Grey_, a novel, by Acton Bell. Vol. III. London, Thomas
Cautley Newby, publisher, 72 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square.
{332b} And yet the error not infrequently occurs, and was recently made
by Professor Saintsbury (_Nineteenth Century Literature_), of assuming
that it was _Jane Eyre_ which met with many refusals.
{332c} Mr. Nicholls assures me that the manuscript was not rewritten
after his marriage, although I had thought it possible, not only on
account of its intrinsic merits, which have not been sufficiently
acknowledged, but on account of the singular fact that Mlle. Henri, the
charming heroine, is married in a white muslin dress, and that her
going-away dress was of lilac silk. These were the actual wedding
dresses of Mrs. Nicholls.
{333} Anne Marsh (1791-1874), a daughter of James Caldwell, J.P., of
Linley Wood, Staffordshire, married a son of the senior partner in the
London banking firm of Marsh, Stacey, & Graham. Her first volume
appeared in 1834, and contained, under the title of _Two Old Men's
Tales_, two stories, _The Admiral's Daughter_ and _The Deformed_, which
won considerable popularity. _Emilia Wyndham_, _Time_, _the Avenger_,
_Mount Sorel_, and _Castle Avon_, are perhaps the best of her many
subsequent novels.
{335} _The Professor_ was published, with a brief note by Mr. Nicholls,
two years after the death of its author. _The Professor_, a Tale, by
Currer Bell, in two volumes. Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1857.
{348} Lady Eastlake died in 1893.
{349} _Letters and Journals_ of Lady Eastlake, edited by her nephew,
Charles Eastlake Smith, vol. i. pp. 221, 222 (John Murray).
{350} _Life of J. G. Lockhart_, by Andrew Lang. Published by John
Nimmo. Mr. Lang has courteously permitted me to copy this letter from
his proof-sheets.
{361} Name of place is erased in original.
{373} Thus in original letter.
{398} That Thackeray had written a certain unfavourable critique of
_Shirley_.
{402} This article was by John Skelton (_Shirley_).
{403} Now in the possession of Mr. A. B. Nicholls.
{408} Thackeray writes to Mr. Brookfield, in October 1848, as
follows:--'Old Dilke of the _Athenaeum_ vows that Procter and his wife,
between them, wrote _Jane Eyre_; and when I protest ignorance, says,
"Pooh! you know who wrote it--you are the deepest rogue in England, etc."
I wonder whether it can be true? It is just possible. And then what a
singular circumstance is the + fire of the two dedications' [_Jane Eyre_
to Thackeray, _Vanity Fair_ to Barry Cornwall].--_A Collection of Letters
to W. M. Thackeray_, 1847-1855. Smith and Elder.
{423} _Chapters from Some Memories_, by Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
Macmillan and Co. Mrs. Ritchie and her publishers kindly permit me to
incorporate her interesting reminiscence in this chapter.
{432} George Henry Lewes (1817-1878). Published _Biographical History
of Philosophy_, 1845-46; _Ranthorpe_, 1847; _Rose_, _Blanche_, _and
Violet_, 1848; _Life of Goethe_, 1855. Editor of the _Fortnightly
Review_, 1865-66. _Problems of Life and Mind_, 1873-79; and many other
works.
{434} Richard Hengist Horne (1803-1884). Published _Cosmo de Medici_,
1837; _Orion_, an epic poem in ten books, passed through six editions in
1843, the first three editions being issued at a farthing; _A New Spirit
of the Age_, 1844; _Letters of E. B. Browning to R. H. Horne_, 1877.
{444} Printed by the kind permission of the Rev. C. W. Heald, of Chale,
I.W.
{446} Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth (1804-1877). A doctor of medicine, who
was made a baronet in 1849, on resigning the secretaryship of the
Committee of Council on Education; assumed the name of Shuttleworth on
his marriage, in 1842, to Janet, the only child and heiress of Robert
Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley (died 1872). His son, the
present baronet, is the Right Hon. Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth.
{457a} Some experiments on a farm of two acres.
{457b} Letters of Matthew Arnold, collected and arranged by George W. E.
Russell.
{468} Mr. Nicholls is the Mr. Macarthey of _Shirley_. Here is the
reference which not unnaturally gratified him:--'Perhaps I ought to
remark that, on the premature and sudden vanishing of Mr. Malone from the
stage of Briarfield parish . . . there came as his successor, another
Irish curate, Mr. Macarthey. I am happy to be able to inform you, _with
truth_, that this gentleman did as much credit to his country as Malone
had done it discredit; he proved himself as decent, decorous, and
conscientious, as Peter was rampant, boisterous, and--(this last epithet
I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag). He
laboured faithfully in the parish; the schools, both Sunday and
day-schools, flourished under his sway like green bay-trees. Being
human, of course he had his faults; these, however, were proper,
steady-going, clerical faults: the circumstance of finding himself
invited to tea with a dissenter would unhinge him for a week; the
spectacle of a Quaker wearing his hat in the church, the thought of an
unbaptized fellow-creature being interred with Christian rites--these
things could make strange havoc in Mr. Macarthey's physical and mental
economy; otherwise he was sane and rational, diligent and
charitable.'--_Shirley_, chap. xxxvii.
{469} John Stuart Mill, who, however, attributed the authorship of this
article to his wife.
{491} The Nusseys.
{495} The Rev. George Sowden, vicar of Hebden Bridge, Halifax, and
honorary canon of Wakefield, is still alive.
INDEX
ABBOTSFORD, 453-4.
Academy of Arts Royal, 14, 15, 124.
_Agnes Grey_--its publication, 161, 184, 331, 332; reprint, 364, 365;
Charlotte on, 162, 336, 337, 388; value of, 181.
Ahaderg, County Down, 28.
Alexander, Miss, 468.
Ambleside, 126, 205, 442, 454, 457.
_Amy Herbert_, 260.
Antwerp, 102.
Appleby, 285, 287.
Arnold, Matthew, 145, 457, 458, 459.
Arnold, Dr., 263, 400, 442, 454, 456, 457, 458, 459.
Arnold, Mrs. Thomas, 456, 458.
_Athanaeum_, 178, 334, 340, 404, 408, 431, 459.
Atkinson, Mr., 211, 312, 313.
_Atlas_, 414, 415.
Austen, Jane, 399, 445.
Aylott & Jones, 325-9, 331.
BANGOR, 491.
'Beck, Madame.' _See_ Heger, Madame.
Bedford, Mr., 40, 47.
Bell, Rev. Alan, 465.
Bell Chapel, Thornton, 56.
_Bengal Hurkaru_, 362.
Bennoch, Francis, 491.
Bernard-Beere, Mrs., 164.
_Berwick Warder_, 165.
Bierly, 47.
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte, 164.
Birrell, Augustine, 29, 30.
Birstall, 3, 107, 116, 210, 214, 224, 239, 261, 312, 457.
'Black Bull,' Haworth, 143, 361.
_Blackwood's Magazine_, 121, 139, 141, 147.
Blake Hall, 84, 149, 182, 296.
Blanche, Mdlle., 114, 117.
Bolitho, Sons, & Co, 103.
_Bombay Gazette_, 323.
Borrow's _Bible in Spain_, 189.
Bowling Green Inn, Bradford, 106.
Bradford, 41, 42, 46, 51, 58, 124, 150, 206, 211, 284, 292.
_Bradford Observer_, 168, 407.
_Bradford Review_, 54.
Bradley, Rev. Richard, 291.
Branwells of Cornwall, 30.
Branwell, Anne, 34.
Branwell, Charlotte, 33, 34.
Branwell, Eliza, 217.
Branwell, Elizabeth, 34, 51, 52, 61, 92, 96, 102, 103-4, 105, 112, 147.
Branwell, John, 217.
Branwell, Joseph, 34, 491.
Branwell, Margaret, 34.
Branwell, Maria. _See_ Bronte, Mrs.
Branwell, Thomas, 33.
Branty, 28.
Braxborne, 395.
Bremer, Frederika, 187.
'Bretton Mrs.' _See_ Smith, Mrs.
Brewster, Sir David, 268, 463.
Briery, Windermere, 5.
Britannia, 358.
'Brocklehurst Mr.' _See_ Wilson, Carus.
Bromsgrove, 134.
Bronte, Anne Chapter VII., 181-203 birth, 51; baptism, 56, 57; at
Haworth, 60; as governess, 19, 88, 90, 97, 112, 128, 150, 296; at
Brussels, 128; at Scarborough, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201; in Miss
Branwell's will, 103; and Charlotte, 113, 159, 352; as Emily's chum, 120,
144, 145, 147, 148; and Miss Nussey, 160, 182-4, 208, 209, 219, 307; and
the Misses Robinson, 137, 182, 288; and Mr. Weightman, 286; her dog
(_see_ Flossie); her drawings, 67; her letters, 144; her unpublished MSS,
25, 61, 62, 71-2, 144; her novels (see _Agnes Grey_ and _The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall_) her poems, 325-331; her portrait, 123; her illness and
death, 175, 176, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 262, 281,
393, 439, 440, 467; her grave, 203.
Bronte, Branwell Chapter V., 120-143; birth, 51, 123; baptism, 57; at
school, 123, 290, 291; at the Royal Academy of Arts, 14, 15, 124; at
Luddenden Foot, 127, 147, 148, 150, 152; in his aunt's will, 103, 104,
105; and Anne, 154; and Charlotte, 25, 81, 92, 93, 119, 120, 121, 122,
131, 140, 141; Charlotte's letters to, 112-14, 115, 120, 239; and Emily,
142; and his father, 137, 138, 139, 142, 465; and Hartley Coleridge,
125-7; and F. H. Grundy, 128; Jane Eyre, 14, 143; and Miss Nussey, 106,
219; and the Robinsons, 18, 19, 112, 128, 129-31, 136, 137, 182; his
sketches, 14, 67, 123; his writings, 72, 73, 123, 125-7; his translation
of Horace, 126; his portrait, 138; his character, 124; his idleness, 133,
134, 135, 137; his death, 61, 138-41, 165, 191.
Bronte, Charlotte birth, 51; baptism, 57; her place at the Haworth
dinner-table, 60; childhood, 56-73; her father (_see_ Bronte, Patrick)
her mother (_see_ Bronte, Mrs. Patrick) her sisters (_see_ Bronte, Anne;
Bronte, Emily; _Agnes Grey_; _Tenant of Wildfell Hall_; _Wuthering
Heights_) her brother (_see_ Bronte, Branwell) her school life (_see_
Wooler, Margaret; Cowan Bridge; and Roe Head) her school friends (_see_
Nussey, Ellen; Taylor, Mary) at the Sidgwicks' (_q.v._), 79-84; at the
Whites' (_q.v._), 85-94; at Brussels (_see_ Heger M. and Madame; Jenkins,
Rev. Mr.; The _Professor_; _Villette_; Wheelwright, Laetitia); in London,
14, 107, 214, 268, 270, 416, 417-28; her father's curates, 280-92 (_see
also_ De Renzi, Rev. Mr.; Nicholls, Rev. A. B.; Smith, Rev. Peter
Augustus; Weightman, Rev. W.; and _Shirley_) her lovers, 293-324 (_see
also_ Nicholls, Rev. A. B.; Nussey, Rev. Henry; Taylor, James) her
literary ambitions, 325-369; her unpublished literary work, 61-7, 68; her
published work (see _Jane Eyre_, _The Professor_, _Shirley_, _Villette_,
_Poems_); her publishers (_see_ Aylott & Jones, Newby, and Smith Elder &
Co); her literary friendships, 429-463 (_see also_ Gaskell, Mrs.;
Martineau, Harriet; Smith, George; Thackeray, W. M.; Williams, W. S.);
her critics (_see_ Eastlake, Lady; Kingsley, Charles; Lewes, G. H.; and
various periodicals); her marriage, 8, 261, 464, 491 (_see_ Nicholls,
Rev. A. B.); her appearance, 22, 74, 293, 457; her death, 500; her grave,
54, 500; her will, 24, 500; her biography, 1-26 (_see also_ Gaskell,
Mrs.; Grundy, F. H.; Leyland, F. A.; Nussey, Ellen; Reid, Sir Wemyss);
her portrait, 123, 294; on affection for her family, 88; on children,
376-8, 381; on female friendships, 205; on governessing, 84, 228, 382; on
ladies' college, 277; on women in the professions, 378, 382, 395, 396; on
marriage, 261, 295-6, 298, 303, 304-6, 307, 310, 383, 394, 493, 494; on
spinsters, 134; on men, 199, 490; on authors and bookmakers, 165; on her
critics, 176, 269; on lionising, 266, 270; on literary coteries, 270,
353, 389, 399; on money rewards of literature, 275; on the art of
biography, 385; on her heroes, 345; on the French, 411; on French
politics, 343, 373; on war, 264; on Shakespeare-acting, 270; on dancing,
211; on the Bible, 213, 216; on religion, 140, 166, 193, 211; on the
value of work, 203, 396.
Bronte, Elizabeth, 51, 56, 74, 358.
Bronte, Emily Chapter VI, 144-180; birth, 51; baptism, 57; at Haworth,
59, 60; her childhood, 74; her school days, 145; as a teacher, 15, 145;
at Brussels, 97, 100, 102, 111, 133, 145; as Anne's chum, 120, 144; in
Miss Branwell's will, 103; and the French newspapers, 241; Charlotte's
letters to, 25, 91, 114, 116, 117, 119; her religion, 14, 100, 145; her
portrait, 123-4; her likeness to G. H. Lewes, 432; her messages to Miss
Nussey, 160-1, 208, 209; her dog (_see_ Keeper); her sketches, 67, 154,
157; her unpublished writings, 61, 62, 70, 146, 148, 150-2; her novel
(see _Wuthering Heights_); her poetry, 144, 154, 325-31; her illness and
death, 165, 166-75, 186, 345; her character, 60, 111, 112, 144, 146, 167,
177; Matthew Arnold on, 145; Charlotte on, 4, 165, 337; Sydney Dobell on,
145; A. Mary F. Robinson on, 121, 122; Swinburne on, 146; Dr. Wright on,
157, 158;
Bronte, Hugh, 55, 158.
Bronte, Maria, 51, 56, 57, 74, 404.
Bronte, Museum, 23.
Bronte, name, 29.
Bronte, Rev. Patrick Chapter 1, 27-55 his pedigree, 28-9, 157, 158; at
Cambridge, 28, 97; at Weatherfield, 29-30; at Hartshead, 30-51, 56; at
Thornton, 51; goes to Haworth, 51; his courtship, 25, 30-51; his
marriage, 30, 51; his wife (_see_ Bronte, Mrs. Patrick); his church, 56
(_see also_ Haworth) his curates, 280-292; his home, 56; his study, 60,
61; his children at home, 60-2; takes his children to school, 74; his
view of his daughters' literary successes, 52; and Miss Branwell, 51,
104; and his son, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142; and Charlotte, 31, 161,
209, 222, 229, 264, 267, 271; Charlotte's letters to, 5, 419, 423, 451-2,
454, 461, 463, 471; and Charlotte's biography, 2, 3, 9-12, 16, 17, 31,
67; and Charlotte's wedding, 261 (_see also_ Nicholls Rev. A. B.); and
Emily, 147, 175, 193; and Mary Burder, 29, 30; and Rev. A. B. Nicholls,
28, 54, 55, 292, 474, 475-6, 477, 481, 485, 487; and Miss Nussey, 11, 12,
159, 183, 211, 237; and Flossy's death, 230; and James Taylor, 309; and
Miss Wooler, 269, 274, 369; his gun, 28; his illnesses, 176, 184, 231,
232, 241, 272, 307, 315, 451, 470, 482, 484; his poems, 32; his
character, 52, 53; his recluse habits, 186, 308; Mrs. Gaskell's view of,
16, 27; his death, 54, 501; his will, 55.
Bronte, Mrs. Patrick--her pedigree, 33; her love letters, 25, 31-51; her
marriage, 30; her life at Haworth, 59-61; her portrait, 34.
Bronte, pedigree, 28, 358.
Brook, Mrs., 284, 296.
Brookfield, Mrs., 421, 422.
Brookroyd, 10, 15, 85, 93, 94, 105, 106, 119, 131, 174, 206, 211, 213,
214, 219, 222, 224, 225, 242, 275, 291, 297, 477, 491, 493, 494, 499.
Brougham, John, 163.
Broughton-in-Furness, 124, 125.
Brown, John, 152, 468, 476, 479.
Brown, Martha, 18, 19, 52, 54, 55, 60, 124, 149, 151, 153, 202, 271, 319,
361, 424, 425, 426, 452, 455, 461, 462, 463, 471, 472, 474, 476, 478.
Brown, Tabby, 54, 55, 60, 149, 151, 152, 153, 202, 239, 271, 463.
Brown, William, 104.
Browning, Mrs., 270, 434.
Bruntee, 29.
Brunty, 29.
Brussels, 3, 14, 21, 25, 26, 52, 84, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96-119, 120, 128,
133, 150, 159, 160, 218, 287, 290, 307, 440.
Bunsen, Chevalier, 456.
Burder, Miss Mary, 29, 30.
Burnet, Rev. Dr., Vicar of Bradford, 54.
'Burns, Helen.' _See_ Bronte Maria.
Burns, Robert, 127, 392.
Butterfield, R, 491.
CALDWELL, JAMES, 333.
Carlisle, Earl of, 425.
Carlyle, Mrs., 421.
Carlyle, Thomas, 20, 195, 374, 380, 384, 421.
Carter family, 81.
Cartman, Rev. Dr., 54, 425.
Cartwright's mill, 22.
Catholics, Charlotte and, 116, 117, 459.
_Caxtons_, _The_, 177, 359, 444.
_Chambers' Journal_, 244, 329, 411.
Chapham, Mrs., 262.
Chappelle, M., 111.
Chesterfield, Lady, 427.
Chorley, Mr., 416.
_Christian Remembrancer_, 341, 368, 393.
_Church of England Journal_, 407.
Clanricarde, Lady, 427.
Clapham, Mr., 500.
Clapham, Mrs., 37, 182, 500.
Clergy Daughters' School, 74, 262, 356.
Colburn, Mr., 7.
Coleridge, Hartley, 125, 126.
Coleridge, S. T., 371.
Colin, M. of _L'Etoile Belge_, 111.
Collins, Mrs., 81.
_Cornhill Magazine_, 25.
_Cottage Poems_, 32.
_Cottage in the Wood_, 32, 33.
_Courier_, 339.
Coverley Church, 37.
Cowan Bridge, 3, 18, 63, 74, 75, 145, 263, 358.
Crackenthorp, 285.
_Cranford_, 1.
'Crimsworth', 100.
_Critic_, 178, 191, 329, 334, 434.
Crosstone Parsonage, 67, 104, 217.
Crowe, Mrs., 421.
Crystal Palace, 268, 425, 461, 463.
Curates at Haworth, 118, 280-292.
Curie's Homoeopathy, 171.
'DAILY NEWS', 18, 356, 357, 431.
Davenport, Mrs., 463.
_David Copperfield_, 397.
De Quincey, Thomas, 330.
Derby, 441.
De Renzi, Rev. Mr., 291, 292, 483.
Devonshire, Duke of, 53.
Dewsbury, 30.
Dewsbury Moor, 75, 77, 78, 79, 91, 92, 145, 215, 260, 262.
Dickens, Charles, 199, 270, 397, 410.
Dickenson, Lowes, 372.
_Die Waise von Lowood_, 164.
Dilke, C. W., 338, 408.
Dixon, George, 107, 219, 240, 251.
Dixon Miss Mary, 107, 119, 219.
Dobell, Sydney, 145, 366.
Dobsons of Bradford, 41.
'Donne, Mr.' _See_ Grant Rev. Mr.
Donnington, 294, 295.
Douro, Marquis of, 62, 66, 67, 68, 70.
Drury, Rev. Mr., 111.
_Dublin Review_, 361.
_Dublin University Magazine_, 329, 334, 438.
Dury, Caroline, 285.
Dury, Rev. Theodore, 104.
Dyson, Harriet, 449.
EARNLEY RECTORY, 87, 281, 297.
Eastlake, Lady, 158, 190, 347, 348, 349, 350, 397.
Easton, 299.
Eckermann's _Goethe_, 397, 431.
_Economist_, 178, 346, 358.
Edinburgh, Charlotte in, 452, 453, 454.
_Edinburgh Guardian_, 402.
_Edinburgh Review_, 361, 407, 418.
_Edward Orland_, 251.
Ellesmere, Earl of, 463.
Elliott, Mrs., 422.
Elliotson, Dr., 172.
Ellis, Mrs., 418.
'Emanuel Paul.' _See_ Heger, M.
Emerson, 176, 189, 391.
_Emma_, 24, 399.
Epps, Dr., 173.
_Esmond_, 275, 276, 403.
Euston Square, 107.
_Examiner_, 357, 358, 375, 388, 414, 415, 441, 459.
Exeter Hall, 355.
_Experience of Life_, 275.
Eyre, Joan, 221.
Eyre, Robert (died 1459), 221.
'FAIR CAREW, THE', 402.
_Fanny Hervey_, 177.
'Fanshawe, Ginevra.' _See_ Miller, Maria.
Fawcets of Bradford, 41.
Fennell, Rev. John, 30, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 49, 56, 57,
67, 104, 217.
Fennell, Jane (Mrs. Morgan), 34, 37, 49, 50.
Fielding, Henry, 407.
Filey, 471.
_First Performance_, _The_, 445.
Fitzwilliam, Earl, 206.
Fleeming, W. Lowe, 95.
Flossie, jun., 159, 288, 289.
Flossy, the dog, 135, 151, 152, 153, 154, 179, 184, 202, 230, 288, 428,
452, 471, 478, 497.
Forbes, Dr., 172, 187, 192, 398, 425.
Forcade, Eugene, 344, 359.
Forster, John, 357, 416.
Fonblanque, Mr., 357, 406.
_Fraser's Magazine_, 16, 121, 329, 339, 405, 433, 435.
GARRS, NANCY, 17, 52.
Garrs, Sarah, 17.
Gaskell Mrs--the biography of Charlotte Bronte, 1-26; its hiatuses and
blunders, 31, 34, 39, 49, 61, 97, 103, 104, 120, 294, 325; on Branwell,
18, 103, 104, 123; Charlotte on, 4, 277; visited by Charlotte, 7, 367,
369, 458, 461, 462, 463, 488; visits Charlotte, 6, 8; and Charlotte's
wedding, 491; on Emily, 14, 145; and Patrick, 2, 3, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17,
27, 31, 67; and M. Heger, 14, 108; and Kingsley, 16; and Lewes, 432; and
Rev. A. B. Nicholls, 2, 9, 12, 17, 18, 465; and Miss Nussey, 9, 15, 24,
204; and the Robinsons, 18-20, 129, 130; and Mary Taylor, 21, 257, 259;
and Thackeray, 428; and Frank Williams, 322; and Rev. Carus Wilson, 18;
Miss Wooler on, 278; _Cranford_, 1; _Mary Barton_, 4, 188; _North and
South_, 498.
Gaskell, Miss Meta, 8, 14.
Gaskell, Rev. W, 8, 19, 130.
Gawthorpe Hall, 446, 447, 448.
George Lovel, 445.
Gibson, Mrs., 278.
_Gleneden's Dream_, 154-7.
Glenelg, Lord, 463.
_Globe_, 358.
Godwin, William, 195.
Goethe, 353, 397, 420, 431, 432.
Gomersall, 238, 239, 260.
_Gondaland Chronicles_, 146, 147, 150, 153, 154.
Gorham, Mary, 244.
Grant, Rev. Mr., 118, 119, 290, 291, 468, 478, 481, 484, 492.
Greenwood, J, 82, 362, 363.
Growler, dog, 154.
Grundy's _Pictures of the Past_, 121, 127, 128, 142, 293.
Guizot, 373, 374.
HABERGHAM, 498.
Halifax, 15, 145, 159, 206, 277, 287.
Hardy, Mr., 42.
Hare's _Guesses at Truth_, 397, 431.
Harris, Miss, 91.
Harris, Alexander, 168, 188, 195, 199, 440.
Harrison, Thomas, 324.
Hartshead, 30, 34, 36, 38, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 56.
Hathersage, 152, 160, 183, 220, 222, 223, 297.
Hausse, Mdlle., 114, 442.
Haworth--church, 28, 54, 56, 58; curates, 280-92; library, 243; museum,
23; parsonage, 51, 59, 201, 396, 415, 433; 'Lodge of the Three Graces',
124; village in 1828, 58; villagers, 17, 18, 355; Mrs. Gaskell and, 3, 8,
10; _see also_ Nicholls, Nussey, Taylor, Williams.
Haxby, 291.
Hazlitt, William, 371.
Heald, Canon, 443.
Heald, Mary, 167, 215, 444.
Heald, Harriet, 444.
Heap, Mrs., 284.
'Heathcliffe', 414.
Heaton, Robert, 58.
Hebden Bridge, 54, 58, 495.
Heckmondwike, v, 260.
Heger, Dr., 26.
Heger, M., 14, 108, 96-219.
Heger, Madame, 14, 99, 101, 102, 107, 108, 109, 111, 113, 114, 115.
Heger's Pensionnat, 96-119, 239, 243, 279.
Helps's _Friends in Council_, 354, 431.
Hero, the hawk, 147, 151.
Herschel, Sir John, 360, 374, 406.
Hervey, Fanny, 177, 346.
Hewitt, Mrs., 499.
Hexham, 90.
Hoby, Miss, 81.
Hodgson Rev. Mr., 280, 302.
Homoeopathy, 169, 171, 172, 194.
Horne, R. H., 400, 405, 434, 435.
Hornsea, 274.
Hotel Clusyenaar, 101.
Houghton. _See_ Milnes, Monckton.
Howitt, Mary, 393.
Howitt, William, 359.
Hunsworth, 219, 220, 223, 224, 243.
Hunt, Leigh, 195, 338, 371, 406.
Hunt, Thornton, 449.
Hyde, Dr. Douglas, 29.
Hydropathy, 194, 401.
ILKLEY, 13, 277.
_Illustrated London News_, 441.
_Imitation_ of Thomas a Kempis, 30, 31.
Ingham, Mrs., 84, 182.
'Ingram, Miss', 350.
Ireland, 28, 89, 90, 157, 183, 290, 465, 493.
'Ireland, An adventure in', 64-6.
'JANE EYRE,' authorship, 170, 349, 379, 404, 408; inception, 33, 74, 190,
221, 372; where written, 61; manuscript of, 333; publication, 332;
preface, 161, 350, 353; dedication, 403, 408; reprint, 198; proposed
illustration of, 342-3; in French, 373, 374; reception, 2, 141, 158, 178,
338-42, 344, 346, 350, 356, 362, 363, 376, 404, 405, 410, 433, 435, 446;
dramatised, 162-4; Cowan Bridge controversy, 18; 'Brocklehurst', 18, 245,
339; 'Helen Burns', 56, 404; 'Miss Ingram', 350; 'Mrs. Read', 52;
'Rochester', 162, 405, 409, 410, 414; 'Mrs. Rochester', 339, 408;
Charlotte on, 189, 335, 336; Branwell on, 143; Hugh Bronte on, 158;
Kingsley on, 16; Mary Taylor on, 245, 252.
Jannoy, Hortense, 115.
Japp's _De Quincey Memorials_, 330.
_Jar of Honey_, 161.
Jenkins, Rev. Mr., 92, 93, 97, 98, 99, 111, 116.
Jerrold, Douglas, 374.
_John Bull_, 386.
'John, Dr.' _See_ Smith, George.
Johnson, Dr., 395.
Jolly, Rev. J, 56.
_Journal from Cornhill_ etc, 188, 320.
'Jupiter', 311-12.
KAVANAGH, JULIA, 7, 168, 170, 189, 199, 203, 338, 340, 363, 400, 411,
432.
Kavanagh, M.P., 168.
Keats, 371.
Keene, Laura, 163.
Keeper, the dog, 61, 91, 147, 149, 152, 153, 154, 179, 180, 202, 428.
Keighley, 58, 106, 281, 291, 429, 431.
_Kenilworth_, 200.
Keyworth, Rev. Thomas, 221.
Kingsley, Charles, 16, 18.
Kingston, Anne, 104.
Kingston, Elizabeth Jane, 103, 105.
Kirk-Smeaton, 483, 490.
Kirkstall Abbey, 39, 45.
Knowles, Sheridan, 445.
LAMARTINE, 402.
Lamb, Charles, 263.
Lamb, Mary, 263.
Lang's _Lockhart_, 350.
Lawry, Mrs., of Muswell Hill, 25.
_Leader_, 459, 460.
Leeds, 49, 107, 127, 206, 359.
_Leeds Mercury_, 31.
Lewes, George Henry, 338, 339, 345, 355, 356, 358, 361, 400, 406, 407,
410, 418, 432, 433, 435, 445, 450, 468.
Leyland's _Bronte Family_, 19, 23, 121, 122, 138, 143.
Liege, 240.
Lille, 97, 98.
Lind, Jenny, 400, 416.
Lockhart, J. G., 1, 348, 350.
London. _See_ Bronte, Charlotte, in London.
London Bridge Wharf, 107.
Londonderry, Marchioness of, 427.
Louis Philippe, 373, 374.
'Lowood School', 190, 339.
Luddenden Foot, 127, 147, 150, 152.
Luddite Riots, 206.
Lynn, Eliza, 170, 172.
Lyttleton's _Advice to a Lady_, 51.
Lytton Bulwer, 170, 177, 359, 392, 414, 426.
'MACARTHEY, MR.' _See_ Nicholls.
Macaulay's _History_, 187, 229.
Macdonald, Frederika, 109.
_Macmillan's Magazine_, 25.
Macready, the actor, 270, 416, 423.
_Madeline_, 168, 170, 189.
_Maid of Killarney_, 32, 33.
'Malone, Mr.' _See_ Smith Rev. Peter A.
Manchester, 17, 241, 349, 369, 462, 463, 491.
Marsh, Mrs., 333, 404.
Martineau, Harriet, 4, 5, 6, 17, 25, 205, 251, 255, 278, 312, 313, 366,
368, 416, 442, 445, 454, 455, 456, 457, 459, 460, 469, 473.
Martineau, Rev. James, 128.
_Mary Barton_, 4, 188.
Marzials, Madame, 98.
Mayers, H. S., 203.
Meredith, George, 370.
Merrall, E, 491.
Merrall, H, 491.
Miles, Rev. Oddy, 58.
Mill, John Stuart, 469.
Miller, Maria (Mrs. Robertson), 101.
Mills, Mrs., 91.
Milnes, Monckton, 422, 425, 491.
Mirabeau, 384-85.
Mirfield, 81, 261.
_Mirror_, 142, 407, 410, 435.
Miry Shay, near Bradford, 38.
_Miss Miles_, 259.
_Mrs. Leicester's School_, 263.
_Modern Painters_, 195, 387.
Moore's _Life_, 402.
_Moorland Cottage_, 5.
More, Dr., 261.
Morgan, Lady, 270.
Morgan, Mrs., 277.
Morgan, Rev. William, 34, 38, 44, 49, 56, 57, 478, 491.
Morley, 58.
Morley, John, 370.
_Morning Chronicle_, 205, 375, 380.
_Morning Herald_, 167, 168, 177, 340.
_Morning Post_, 434.
Morrison, Alfred, 325.
Morton Village, 221.
Mossman, Miss, 243.
Muhl, Mdlle., 114.
NAPOLEON, 375.
National Gallery, 387, 423.
Near and Far Oxenhope, 58.
Nelson, Lord, 29, 73, 127, 358.
Newby, Thomas Cautley, 162, 171, 172, 244, 331, 336, 337, 354, 364, 365,
388, 415.
_Newcastle Guardian_, 407.
Newman, Cardinal, 363.
Newton & Robinson, 130.
Nicholls, Rev. A. B. Chapter XVII, 464-502; birth, 465; character, 501;
Charlotte refers to, 426, 428, 466, 467, 469, 470, 475, 476, 480, 489,
499; Mrs. Gaskell's view of, 464; and Rev. Patrick Bronte, 28, 54, 55,
292, 474, 475, 476, 477, 481, 485, 487; wooing of Charlotte, 472, 473,
475, 476, 480; marriage with Charlotte, 490-1; marriage with Miss Bell,
501; his study at Haworth, 61; in Ireland, 183, 465, 467, 501; on
Charlotte's letters, 494; and Mrs. Gaskell's biography, 2, 9, 10-12, 13,
17; and _Charlotte Bronte and her Circle_, v, 24, 97, 160, 332; and Cowan
Bridge controversy, 18; his relics of the Brontes, 123-4, 138, 154, 181,
403.
Nicholls, Mrs. A. B. (_secunda_), 501.
Nicoll, Dr. Robertson, v.
Noel, Baptist, 218.
Norfolk, Duchess of, 427.
_North American Review_, 169.
_North British Review_, 313, 346.
Nussey, Ellen Chapter VIII, 204-233; her pedigree, 206; at school, 76,
234, 261, 264; at Haworth, 59, 60, 61, 158, 273, 274, 276, 299; in
Sussex, 271, 272; visited by Charlotte, 239, 301; help to Mrs. Gaskell,
9-15, 24, 145; _The Story of Charlotte Bronte's Life_, 23, 25;
recollections of Anne, 203; recollections of Emily, 178-180;
recollections of Miss Wooler, 261; Charlotte's admiration for, 300; Mary
Taylor on, 249, 250; letters from Anne, 182-4; letters from Charlotte, v,
76-86, 89-95, 98, 102, 105-7, 116, 119, 131-2, 134-8, 166, 173, 191, 196,
206-32, 237-8, 240-4, 254, 281-91, 295-7, 302-7, 310-2, 314-9, 321, 322,
360, 367, 401, 417, 419, 429, 430, 432, 443, 446, 448-50, 452, 457, 462,
465-9, 472-500; letter from Emily, 160; letter from Canon Heald, 443;
letter from Martha Taylor, 240; letter from Mary Taylor, 256, 258.
Nussey, George, 85, 86, 89.
Nussey, Rev. Henry, 87, 119, 160, 221, 294-301.
Nussey, Mrs. Henry, 220, 222, 223.
Nussey, John, 206.
Nussey, Mrs., 208, 222, 275.
Nussey, Mercy, 89, 94, 141, 222, 226.
Nussey, Richard, 89.
Nussey, Sarah, 89.
OAKWORTH, 291.
_Observer_, 335, 431.
O'Callaghan Castle, 64-6.
O'Prunty, Patrick, 29.
_Orion_, 434, 435.
Orleans, Duchess of, 427.
Outhwaite, Miss, 181, 197.
_Oxford Chronicle_, 339.
PADIHAM, 498.
'Pag.' _See_ Taylor, Mary.
_Palladium_, 310, 364, 366, 367.
Paris, Charlotte and, 96, 153.
Pascal's _Thoughts_, 397.
Patchet, Miss, 145, 149.
Paxton, Sir Joseph, 54.
Payn, James, 370.
_Pendennis_, 172.
Penzance, 30, 33, 34, 51, 103, 105, 217.
Perry, Miss, 422.
Phillips, George Searle, 142.
Pickles, J, 491.
Poems by the sisters--in manuscript, 68-72; Aylott & Jones's edition,
325-331, 334, 348.
_Poor Relations_, 164.
Port Nicholson, N.Z., 239.
Portraits--of Anne, 181; of Branwell, 138; of Charlotte, 123, 294; of
Emily, 123.
Postlethwaite, Mr., 124.
_Prelude_, Wordsworth's, 7.
Price, Rev. Mr., 302-3.
Procter, Mrs., 408, 422.
_Professor_, _The_--its inception, 99, 100, 101; where written, 61; the
manuscript, 332; seeking a publisher, 331, 332, 372; its publication,
275, 335; Charlotte on, 336; Mrs. Gaskell's proposed recasting of, 465.
Prunty, 157.
Puseyite struggle, 368, 400.
'QUARTERLY REVIEW', 158, 176, 190, 195, 347, 348, 350, 351, 352, 393,
397, 408, 410, 412.
RAILWAY PANIC, 133.
Rands of Bradford, 41.
_Ranthorpe_, 411, 432.
Rawson, Mr., 42.
Read, Mrs. _See_ Branwell, Elizabeth.
Redhead, Rev. Mr., 17.
Redman, Joseph, 55, 479.
Reform Bill, 121.
Reid, Sir Wemyss, vi, 23, 24.
'Reuter, Mdlle. Zoraide.' _See_ Heger, Madame.
Revue des deux Mondes, 344, 345, 361.
Richmond's portrait of Charlotte, 294.
Rigby, Miss. _See_ Eastlake, Lady.
Ringrose, Miss, 135, 225, 227.
Ritchie, Mrs. Richmond, 420-23.
'Rivers, St John', 245.
Robertson, Mr. ('Helstone'), 430, 443.
Robinson, Rev. Edmund, 18, 129, 136, 146, 148.
Robinson, Mrs. Edmund, 18, 19, 128, 129, 130, 136, 137, 182.
Robinson, Edmund jun., 112, 129.
Robinson, Misses, 137, 154, 182, 288.
Robinson, William, of Leeds, 123.
Robinson's _Emily Bronte_, 121, 122.
'Rochester', 162, 405, 409, 410, 414.
'Rochester, Mrs.', 339, 408.
Roe Head, 14, 15, 62, 63, 75, 76, 113, 120, 145, 182, 204, 206, 209, 213,
260, 261, 269, 293.
Rogers, Samuel, 463.
Rouse Mill, 215.
Ruddock, Dr., 231, 232.
'Rue Fossette.' _See_ Rue d'Isabelle.
Rue d'Isabelle, 99, 100, 107, 108, 111, 117.
_Rural Minstrel_, 32.
Ruskin, John, 195, 371, 387, 429.
Ruskin John James, 371.
Russell, Lord John, 400.
Rydings, 206, 212.
S. GUDULE, 117.
St. John's College, Cambridge, 28, 97.
Samplers worked by the Branwells, 34; by the Brontes, 56, 57, 181.
Saunders, Rev. Moses, 58.
Scarborough, 147, 148, 197, 198, 200, 203, 219, 221, 233, 271, 272.
_Scotsman_, 337.
Scott, Sir Walter, 1, 199, 208, 429.
Sewell, Elizabeth, 260.
Shaen, William, 130.
_Sharpe's Magazine_, 10, 452.
_Sheffield Iris_, 407.
_Shirley_, the curates of, 190, 280, 288, 291, 443, 468; other characters
in, 234, 236, 238, 346; authorship of, 351, 431, 442; French in, 353;
Charlotte on, 345, 351, 396, 456; Charles Kingsley on, 16; Harriet
Martineau on, 4, 456; Rev. A. B. Nicholls on, 468; Mary Taylor on, 248,
251; general reception of, 178, 354, 355, 358, 360, 418, 443, 446.
Shuttleworth, Lady, 6, 446, 448, 450, 462, 463.
Shuttleworth, Sir James Kay, 3, 6, 15, 230, 255, 266, 419, 446, 447, 450,
454, 457, 458, 462, 463, 468, 473, 495, 496, 498.
Shuttleworth, Sir U. J. Kay, 446.
Sidgwicks of Stonegappe, 79-84, 112, 113, 149.
Skelton, John, 402.
_Sketch_, _The_, 111.
Skipton, 54, 58.
Smith Elder & Co, 5, 7, 9, 163, 176, 204, 271, 307, 311, 314, 331, 335,
336, 340, 370, 371, 372, 407, 408, 410.
Smith, George; and Anne, 415; and Emily, 388; and _Jane Eyre_, 198, 362,
363, 372; and _Shirley_, 178, 188, 189, 190, 351, 352, 356; and
_Villette_, 366, 429; and _Wuthering Heights_, 365; sends books to
Charlotte, 161, 188, 334, 384, 387, 398; meets Charlotte, 187, 419,
430-3, 441, 462; writes Charlotte, 449; and James Taylor, 315, 317, 321;
and Thackeray, 403, 420-1, 427, 428; Charlotte's opinion of, 318, 364,
386, 417, 430, 445; and Charlotte's marriage, 491.
Smith, Mrs. (mother of George Smith), 417, 419, 429, 430, 450, 452, 453,
462.
Smith, Rev. Peter Augustus, 28, 118, 119, 288, 302, 465.
'Snowe, Lucy', 108, 367.
Sophia, Mdlle., 114.
Southey, 399.
Sowden, Rev. George, 54, 478, 493, 494, 495, 496, 498, 499.
Sowerby Bridge, 127.
_Spectator_, 178, 338, 344, 441.
Stanbury, 58, 59.
_Standard of Freedom_, 167, 358, 359.
Stephen, Sir James, 19.
Stephen, Leslie, 19.
Stephenson, Mr., 128.
Stonegappe, 79, 80, 82.
Stuart, Dr. J. A. Erskine, 28.
_Sun_, 177.
_Sunday Times_, 407, 435.
Sutherland, Duchess of, 424.
Swain, Mrs. John, 159.
Swarcliffe, 81-3.
'Sweeting, Rev. Mr.' _See_ Bradley.
Swinburne, A. C., on Emily, 146.
'TABLET', 405.
Talfourd's _Lamb_, 263.
Tatham, Mr., 37.
Taylor, Ellen, 132, 136, 243, 244, 252, 254.
Taylor, George, 104, 491.
Taylor, Henry, 245, 254.
Taylor, James appearance, 309; history, 307, 323-24; illness, 177, 360;
at Haworth, 308, 314; Charlotte on, 310-11, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 321,
322, 392, 430, 462; Charlotte's letters to, 309, 313, 319, 345, 354, 442,
456, 458; his opinion of _Shirley_, 355, 393; and Mrs. Gaskell's
biography, 9; his marriage, 324; his death, 324.
Taylor, Mrs. James, 324.
Taylor, Jessie, 236.
Taylor, Joe, 243.
Taylor, John, 243.
Taylor, Joshua, 25.
Taylor, Louisa, 394, 395.
Taylor, Martha, 87, 96, 97, 98, 102, 235, 240, 433.
Taylor, Mr., father of Mary Taylor, 236, 238, 251.
Taylor, Mary Chapter IX, 234-259; at school, 9, 261; in Brussels, 91, 92,
96, 98, 239; in New Zealand, 85, 132, 220, 238, 241-59, 290; illness of,
78, 84; letters to Charlotte, 210, 244-52, 254-56, 419; description of
Charlotte, 293; Charlotte and, 77, 90, 131, 196, 207, 212, 223, 232, 306;
and Mrs. Gaskells biography, 9, 21-3, 259; Miss Nussey's description of,
234-37.
Taylor, Rose, 236.
Taylor & Hessey, 371.
Taylor Waring, 239, 240, 252, 253.
Taylor Yorke, 236.
Teale, Mr., 187, 194.
'Temple, Miss', 339.
_Tenant of Wildfell Hall_, writing of, 364; publication, 184; reception
of, 387, 412; its value, 181.
Tennyson's _Poems_, 189.
Thackeray, William Chapter XV, 403-428; on Charlotte, 25, 403, 428; on
_Jane Eyre_, 404, 406, 408; _Jane Eyre_ dedicated to, 403, 408; compared
to Charlotte, 348-49, 408; visited by Charlotte, 416, 418, 420-3, 441;
sends _Vanity Fair_ to Charlotte, 1, 403; his illness, 356; his
illustrations, 342; his lectures, 403, 427; Charlotte on, 172, 177, 188,
199, 270, 275, 276, 319, 320, 333, 340, 343, 362, 374, 391, 404, 406,
411, 412, 419, 423; Lady Eastlake on, 348; Charles Kingsley on, 16; his
friendship with W. S. Williams, 371.
Thackeray, Mrs., 408.
Thiers, 373, 374, 375.
Thomas, R, 491.
Thornton, 3, 51, 56, 123, 181.
Thorp Green, 112, 128, 146, 148, 150, 152, 182.
_Three Paths_, 168.
Tiger, 151, 152.
Tighe, Rev. Mr., 28.
_Times_, 18, 129, 130, 362, 441.
Tootill, John, 104.
Trollope, Mrs., 270, 407, 409.
Truelock, Miss, 422.
Turner, J. M. W., 270, 371, 387, 423.
UPPERWOOD HOUSE, RAWDON, 85-94, 96, 238.
'VANITY FAIR', 1, 172, 349, 403, 411, 412, 413.
'Verdopolis', 123.
Vernon, Solala, 149.
_Victorian Magazine_, 259.
Victoria, Queen, 426, 427.
_Villette_--its inception, 96, 99, 100, 101, 111, 116, 420; publication,
277; its reception, 279, 366, 367; George Smith and, 204, 429; in
Brussels, 109; confession, incident in, 116.
Vincent, Mr., 304.
Voltaire's _Henriade_, 76.
WAINWRIGHT, Mrs., 54.
Walker, Reuben, 206.
Walton, Miss Agnes, 282, 283, 285.
Watman, Rev. Mr., 37.
Watt's _Improvement of the Mind_, 182.
Weatherfield, Essex, 29, 30.
_Weekly Chronicle_, 358, 404.
Weightman, Rev. William, 86, 92, 102, 128, 179, 183, 284-7, 289, 306,
467.
Wellesley, Lord Charles, 62, 69.
Wellington, Duke of, 62, 63, 455.
Wellington, N. Z., 21, 245, 247, 249, 250, 258.
Wells's _Joseph and his Brethren_, 371.
Wesley, John, 30, 31.
Westerman, Mrs., 444.
Westminster, Marquis of, 463.
_Westminster Review_, 205, 433, 469.
Whately's _English Social Life_, 397.
Wheelwright, Dr., 100, 111, 294, 430, 469, 470, 491.
Wheelwright, Laetitia, 25, 26, 100, 101, 109, 293, 294, 440, 441, 449,
453, 460, 469, 482.
Wheelwright, Mrs., 470.
White, Sarah Louisa, 95.
Whites of Rawdon, 84-94, 96, 112, 147, 149, 152, 239.
Williams, Anna, 372.
Williams, E. Thornton, vi, 25.
Williams, Ellen, 394.
Williams, Fanny, 344, 372, 383, 384, 393, 394, 415.
Williams, Frank, 322, 402.
Williams, Louisa, 394, 395.
Williams, W. S. Chapter XIV, 370-402; discovery of Charlotte, 9; sends
books to Charlotte, 429; and _The Professor_, 332; on _Wuthering
Heights_, 161; Charlotte's letters to, vi, 3-7, 25, 138-141, 161-177,
185-191, 194-9, 200-3, 205, 232, 308, 321, 322, 333-67, 371-402, 404-17,
418, 420, 433-40, 444-8, 455; meets Charlotte, 318; Charlotte's
description of, 430; and Charlotte's wedding, 491.
Williams, Mrs., 4, 7, 359, 362, 376, 383, 386, 390, 393, 396, 398, 415,
440, 447.
Willing, James, 164.
Wills, W. G., 164.
Wilson, Rev. Carus, 18, 75, 245, 339.
Windermere, 230, 266.
Wise, Thomas J., vi.
Wiseman, Cardinal, 461.
Wood, Mr. Butler, vi.
Wood House Grove, 34, 36, 38, 39, 41, 43, 47, 49.
Woodward, Mr., of Wellington N. Z., 249.
Wooler, Miss C., 264.
Wooler, Mr., 215.
Wooler, Mrs., 77.
Wooler, Margaret Chapter x, 260-79; her history, 260-1; her school, 75,
77, 78, 91, 92, 96, 145, 181, 214, 215, 234, 235, 284; Charlotte's
letters to, 8, 132-4, 193, 199, 262-78, 367-9; Charlotte and, 87, 207,
212, 249, 262, 492; Miss Nussey on, 261-2; at the Nusseys', 477; and Mary
Taylor, 234, 249, 258; and Charlotte's wedding, 487, 491; and Mrs.
Gaskell, 12, 13, 14, 278.
Wordsworth, William, 7, 142, 312.
Wright's _Brontes in Ireland_, 157, 158.
_Wuthering Heights_--its inception, 157, 158, 159, 246, 414; authorship
of, 122, 142, 143, 340, 342; publication of, 161, 331; reception of, 255,
350, 459; reprint of, 364, 365; its light on Emily, 144; Charlotte on,
162, 336, 337; sent to Mrs. Gaskell, 5.
YARMOUTH, 369.
Yates, W. W., vi.
York, 130, 200.
'Yorke, Rose.' _See_ Taylor Mary.
'--- of Briarmains.' _See_ Taylor, Mr., banker.
_Young Men's Magazine_, 66, 68.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, 451.