Emily Bronte (Robinson 1883)

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Emily Brontë (1883)
by A. Mary F. Robinson

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This volume is part of the Eminent Women Series, edited by John H. Ingram.

2359760Emily Brontë1883A. Mary F. Robinson

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	Unpublished Letters of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë Hours at Home.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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