Emily Bronte (Robinson 1883)
EMILY BRONTË
BY
A. MARY F. ROBINSON
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
W. H. ALLEN AND CO.
13, WATERLOO PLACE
1883.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY W. H. ALLEN AND CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Parentage | 8 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Babyhood | 18 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Cowan's Bridge | 28 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Childhood | 40 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Going to School | 53 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Girlhood at Haworth | 61 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| In the Rue d'Isabelle | 77 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| A Retrospect | 92 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The Recall | 103 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The Prospectuses | 111 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Branwell's Fall | 116 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Writing Poetry | 128 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Troubles | 144 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Wuthering Heights: its Origin | 154 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| Wuthering Heights: the Story | 168 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| 'Shirley' | 209 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Branwell's End | 217 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| Emily's Death | 223 |
| Finis! | 233 |
LIST OF AUTHORITIES.
| 1846–56. | The Works of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. |
| 1857. | Life of Charlotte Brontë. Mrs. Gaskell. 1st and 2nd Editions. |
| 1877. | Charlotte Brontë. T. Wemyss Reid. |
| 1877. | Note on Charlotte Brontë. A. C. Swinburne. |
| 1881. | Three Great Englishwomen. P. Bayne. |
| MS. Lecture on Emily Brontë. T. Wemyss Reid. | |
| MS. Notes on Emily and Charlotte Brontë. Miss Ellen Nussey. | |
| MS. Letters of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë. | |
| 1879. | Reminiscences of the Brontës. Miss E. Nussey. |
| 1870. | Unpublished Letters of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë Hours at Home. |
| 1846. | Emily Brontë's Annotated Copy of her Poems. |
| 1872. | Branwell Brontë: in the "Mirror." G.S.Phillips. |
| 1879. | Pictures of the Past. F. H. Grundy. |
| 1830. | Prospectus of the Clergymen's Daughters School at Cowan's Bridge. |
| 1850. | Preface to Wuthering Heights. Charlotte Brontë. |
| 1850. | Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë. |
| 1850. | Wuthering Heights: in the "Palladium." Sydney Dobell. |
| Personal Reminiscences of Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Ratcliffe, Mrs. Brown, and Mr. William Wood, of Haworth. | |
| 1811-18. | Poems of Patrick Brontë, B.A., Incumbent of Haworth. |
| 1879. | Haworth: Past and Present. J. Horsfall Turner. |
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