| Description |
xviii, 221 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Interviews and recollections |
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Interviews and recollections
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| Contents |
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 H ... (PART CONTENTS) |
| Summary |
This anthology contains autobiographical commentaries by the Brontes themselves, but because these are so scarce they are supplemented by first-hand statements made not only by various inhabitants of Haworth, but by those who met members of the Bronte fami |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Brontë family.
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Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849.
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.
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Brontë, Patrick Branwell, 1817-1848.
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Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Authors, English -- 19th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056943
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Yorkshire (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81050764 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Orel, Harold, 1926-
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| ISBN |
0333646193 (cased) |
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0333663144 (paperback) |
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