The Brontës: Interviews and Recollections

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
T. Wemyss Reid, [‘ “The Little Family” of the Brontës’] (1829–1849), in Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph (London: Macmillan and Co., 1877), pp. 26–8, 39–43, 94–8....Pages 1-8
Charlotte Brontë, ‘A Strange Occurrence at the Parsonage’, in Mrs E[lizabeth] C[leghorn] Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 2 volumes, 1857); rpt, Works of the Sisters Brontë, Haworth Edition, vol. vii (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1903), p. 94....Pages 8-9
Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, [‘Charlotte, Emily, and Miss Wooler’] (1831–1838), in The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt K.C.B.: A Memoir (London: Macmillan, 1929), pp. 2–5....Pages 10-13
‘E’ [Ellen Nussey], ‘Reminiscences of Charlotte Brontë’ (1831–1855), in Scribner’s Monthly, vol. ii, no. 1 (May 1871), pp. 18–31....Pages 13-31
Emily and Anne Brontë, [‘A Diary Note’ — No. 1] (1834), in The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence,* edited by Thomas J. Wise and J. Alexander Symington, vol. i, pp. 124–5....Pages 31-33
Patrick Branwell Brontë, [‘A Letter to the Editor of Blackwood’s Magazine’] (1835), in The Brontës, vol. i, pp. 133–4....Pages 33-35
Patrick Branwell Brontë, [‘A Letter to William Wordsworth’] (1837), in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, vol. i, pp. 151–2....Pages 35-37
Emily and Anne Brontë, [‘A Diary Note’ — No. 2] (1837), in Brontë Society Transactions, vol. xii, no. 1 (1951), p. 15....Pages 37-38
Arthur Christopher Benson, [‘Charlotte Brontë as a Governess’] (1839), in The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Macmillan, 2 volumes, 1899), vol. i, p. 12....Pages 38-39
Francis A. Leyland, [‘The Changing Moods of Branwell Brontë’] (1840–1841), in The Brontë Family, with Special Reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë (London: Hurst and Blackett, two volumes, 1886), vol. i, pp. 265–7, 268–9, 296....Pages 39-42
Emily Brontë, [‘A Diary Note’ — No. 3] (1841), in Shakespeare Head Brontë, vol. i, p. 238....Pages 42-43
Mrs Strickland, [‘Charlotte and the White Family of Rawdon’] (1841), in Westminster Gazette (4 May 1901), p. 8....Pages 43-44
Anne Brontë, [‘A Diary Note’ — No. 4] (1841), in Shakespeare Head Brontë, p. 239....Pages 44-45
Francis H. Grundy, [‘The Decline and Fall of Branwell Brontë’] (1841–1848), in Pictures of the Past: Memories of Men I Have Met and Places I Have Seen (London: Griffith and Farran, 1879), pp. 73–93....Pages 46-59
Dorothy Melling, ‘An Early Acquaintance’ (c. 1842), in The Brontës, edited by E. M. Delafield (London: Hogarth Press, 1935), pp. 144–5....Pages 59-61
Charlotte Brontë, [‘A Boarding School for Young Ladies’] (1844), in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, vol. ii, p. 1....Pages 61-62
Charlotte Brontë, [‘Four Letters to M. Heger’] (1844–1845), in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, vol. ii, pp. 11–14, 18–19, 23–4, 69–71....Pages 62-71
Emily Brontë, [‘A Diary Note’ — No. 5] (1845), in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, vol. ii, pp. 49–50....Pages 71-73
Anne Brontë, [‘A Diary Note’ — No. 6] (1845), in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, vol. ii, pp. 51–3....Pages 73-75
Patrick Branwell Brontë, [‘The Thorp Green Affair’] (1845), in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, vol. ii, pp. 72–3, 95–6, 98–9, 113–14, 123–5....Pages 75-83
Harriet Martineau, [‘A Personal Impression of Charlotte Brontë’] (1847–1849), in Biographical Sketches (New York: Hurst, [1869] ), pp. 48–50....Pages 83-85
George M. Smith, ‘Charlotte Brontë’ (1847–1855), in Cornhill Magazine, New Series, vol. ix (December 1900), pp. 778–95....Pages 85-105
William Makepeace Thackeray, [‘Impressions of Charlotte Brontë’] (1847–1853), in The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, edited by Gordon N. Ray (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 4 volumes, 1945), vol. ii, 1841–1851, pp. 318–19, 340–1; vol. iii, 1852–1856, pp. 232–3....Pages 105-107
William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘The Last Sketch’ (1847–1855) [Introduction to Emma, an unfinished novel by Charlotte Brontë], in Cornhill Magazine, vol. i, April 1860, pp. 487–98....Pages 108-110
Mary Taylor, [Letters from New Zealand to Charlotte Brontë] (1848–1855), in Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere, edited by Joan Stevens (Auckland: Auckland University Press; and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972), pp. 74–5, 85, 93–4, 104, 120, 132–3, 176–81....Pages 110-120
Anne Brontë, [‘Letter to the Reverend David Thom’] (1848), in Times Literary Supplement, 21 June 1923, p. 422....Pages 120-122
Harriet Martineau, [‘Charlotte Brontë’s Reaction to Criticism’] (1849), in Autobiography, edited by Maria Weston Chapman (Boston: James R. Osgood, 2 volumes, 1877), vol. ii, pp. 21–5....Pages 122-127
Catherine Winkworth et al., [‘Letters about Charlotte and Her Marriage’] (1849–1854), in Memorials of Two Sisters: Susanna and Catherine Winkworth, edited by Margaret J. Shaen (London: Longmans, Green, 1908), pp. 53, 60, 111–17....Pages 127-133
Charlotte Brontë, ‘Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell’, written for a new edition of Wuthering Heights, 1850; rpt, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (Ellis Bell) and Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë (Acton Bell), in Works of the Sisters Brontë, Haworth Edition, vol. v (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1903), pp. xliii-li....Pages 133-140
Mrs E[lizabeth] C[leghorn] Gaskell, [‘Letters about Charlotte Brontë’] (1850–1855), in The Letters of Mrs Gaskell, edited by J. A. V. Chappie and Arthur Pollard (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967), pp. 123–9, 139, 228–9, 242–50, 280–1, 335–6....Pages 141-159
Anne Thackeray Ritchie, [‘Charlotte Brontë’s Appearance’] (1850), in Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, with Forty-two Additional Letters from her Father William Makepeace Thackeray, edited by Hester Ritchie (London: John Murray, 1924), pp. 269–70....Pages 160-161
[John Stores Smith], ‘Personal Reminiscences: A Day with Charlotte Brontë’ (1850), in The Free Lance: A Journal of Humour and Criticism (Manchester), vol. iii (14 March 1868), pp. 85–7....Pages 161-170
Charles and Frances Brookfield, [‘A Party for Charlotte Brontë] (1850–1851), in Mrs Brookfield and her Circle (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1906), pp. 304, 354–5....Pages 170-171
William Scruton, ‘A “Stroller’s” Interview with Charlotte Brontë’ (1851) and ‘Martha Brown’ (1898), in Thornton and the Brontës (Bradford: John Dale, 1898), pp. 124–34, 138....Pages 172-179
Frank Smith, [‘An Offer of a Living to Mr Nicholls’] (1854), in The Life and Work of Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth (London: James Murray, 1923), p. 226....Pages 179-180
Patrick Brontë, [‘Two Autobiographical Letters Sent to Mrs Gaskell’] (1855), in A Man of Sorrow: The Life, Letters and Times of the Rev. Patrick Brontë, by John Lock and Canon W. T. Dixon (London: Nelson, 1965), pp. 494–6, 497–8....Pages 181-185
H. K. Bell, ‘Charlotte Brontë’s Husband. His Later Life and Surroundings’ (1855–1906), in Cornhill Magazine, New Series, vol. lxii, January 1927, pp. 42–6....Pages 185-190
[Anonymous], ‘A Winter-Day at Haworth’ (1867), in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art: Fourth Series, no. 217 (22 February 1868), pp. 124–8....Pages 191-203
William Cory, [‘What Charlotte Brontë Meant to an Eton Schoolboy’] (1867), in Extracts from the Letters and Journals of William Cory, edited by Francis Warre Cornish (Oxford: Printed for the Subscribers, 1897), pp. 186, 187–8....Pages 203-205
C[autley] Holmes Cautley, ‘Old Haworth Folk Who Knew the Brontës’ (1910), in Cornhill Magazine, July 1910, pp. 76–84....Pages 205-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-221