Notes

WALKING INTO THE BRONTËS

1. Miriam Farris Allott, The Brontës: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974), 108.

THE FAMILY

1. Allott, The Brontës, 254.

2. Juliet Barker, The Brontës (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994), revised and updated as The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors. The Story of a Literary Family (New York: Pegasus Books, 2012).

3. Clement King Shorter, Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1896 [Project Gutenberg]), Kindle ed., loc. 706.

4. Barker, The Brontës (2012), 110.

5. Charlotte Brontë, Juvenilia, 1829–1835 (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), 3.

6. Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends, Vol. 1, 1829–1847, edited by Margaret Smith (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995), 153.

JANE

1. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XII.

2. Allott, The Brontës, 98.

3. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XXIII.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

A WISH FOR WINGS

1. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 1:266.

2. Ibid., 1:268.

3. Ibid., 1:284.

4. Ibid., 1:285.

5. Charlotte Brontë, The Belgian Essays, edited by Sue Lonoff (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), 140.

6. Ibid., 362.

7. Ibid., 363–364.

8. Ibid., 360.

9. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 1:300.

10. Ibid., 1:317.

11. Ibid., 1:334.

12. Ibid., 1:340.

13. Ibid., 1:109.

14. Ibid., 1:379.

15. Barker, The Brontës (1994), 441.

16. Shorter, Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, loc. 735–736.

17. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 1:435.

18. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë: Author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, &c., 2nd ed. (London : Smith, Elder, 1857 [Project Gutenberg]), 194.

19. Ibid., 210.

MAKING THE ROUNDS

1. Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends, Vol. 2, 1848–1851, edited by Margaret Smith (Oxford: Clarendon, 2000), 744.

2. Barker, The Brontës (1994), 117.

3. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 1:168.

4. Ibid., 1:169.

5. Ibid., 1:239.

6. Allott, The Brontës, 62.

7. Ibid., 65.

8. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 1:537.

9. Ibid., 1:539.

10. Allott, The Brontës, 67.

11. Ibid., 70.

12. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 2:49.

WEARYING HEIGHTS

1. Allott, The Brontës, 229.

CATHY EARNSHAW: ANTI-HEROINE

1. Allott, The Brontës, 227.

2. Ibid., 220.

3. Charles Lemon, Early Visitors to Haworth: From Ellen Nussey to Virginia Woolf (Haworth, UK: Brontë Society, 1996), 242–243.

4. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter XV.

5. Ibid.

6. Slings and Arrows, Season 2, episode 1, directed by Peter Wellington, 2003.

7. Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader: First Series (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984), 159.

AGNES GREY

1. Allott, The Brontës, 252.

2. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 2:742.

3. Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey, Chapter XIV.

4. Charlotte Brontë, Selected Letters of Charlotte Brontë, edited by Margaret Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 31.

5. Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey, Chapter VII.

6. Ibid., Chapter XII.

7. Ibid., Chapter XXI.

SHIRLEY AND CAROLINE

1. Lemon, Early Visitors to Haworth, 119.

2. Ibid., 117.

3. Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter VII.

4. Ibid.

5. Barker, The Brontës (1994), 612.

6. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 1:135.

7. Ibid., 2:81.

8. Ibid., 2:88.

9. Ibid., 2:107.

10. Ibid., 2:439.

11. Ibid., 2:136.

12. Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter XXIII.

13. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 2:195.

14. Ibid., 2:222.

15. Ibid., 2:224.

16. Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter XXIV.

17. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 2:179.

18. Allott, The Brontës, 117.

19. Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter XXXVI.

MEETING MR. ROCHESTER

1. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII.

2. Ibid., Chapter XV.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid., Chapter XII.

5. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 1:198.

6. Ibid., 2:112–113.

7. Ibid., 2:655.

8. Ibid., 2:662.

9. Ibid., 2:680.

10. Ibid., 2:492.

11. Ibid., 2:699.

12. Ibid., 2:606.

13. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XXXI.

HELEN GRAHAM AND BRANWELL BRONTË

1. Allott, The Brontës, 265.

2. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 2:745.

3. Barker, The Brontës (2012), 334.

4. Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Introduction.

5. Allot, The Brontës, 262.

6. Anne Brontë, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter XLI.

7. Allott, The Brontës, 272.

8. Anne Brontë, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter XLI.

9. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 2:77.

10. Ibid., 2:82.

WANDERING THE MOORS

1. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 2:139–140.

2. Ibid.

3. Patsy Stoneman, Jane Eyre on Stage, 1848–1898: An Illustrated Edition of Eight Plays with Contextual Notes (Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), 33.

M. PAUL EMANUEL

1. Barker, The Brontës (1994), 723.

2. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 1:284.

3. Charlotte Brontë, Villette, Chapter XIV.

4. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 2:414.

5. Ibid., 2:516.

6. Charlotte Brontë, Villette, Chapter XXI.

7. Ibid., Chapter XXXIII.

8. Ibid., Chapter XXXVIII.

9. Ibid., Chapter XLI.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid., Chapter XLII.

13. Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends, Vol. 3, 1852–1855, edited by Margaret Smith (Oxford: Clarendon, 2004), 142.

14. Allott, The Brontës, 177.

15. Ibid.

ARTHUR

1. Barker, The Brontës (1994), 752.

2. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 3:247.

3. Ibid., 3:265.

4. Barker, The Brontës (1994), 302.

5. Ibid.

6. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 2:557.

7. Barker, The Brontës: A Life in Letters, 392.

8. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 3:271.

9. Ibid., 3:248.

10. Ibid., 3:286.

11. Ibid., 3:295–297.

12. Ibid., 3:298.

13. Ibid., 3:325.

14. Ibid., 3:284.

HAWORTH

1. Lemon, Early Visitors to Haworth, 125.

2. Charlotte Brontë, Villette, Chapter VI.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. Daphne Merkin, “Life on Moors,” New York Times Magazine, March 18, 2012, 37–38, 40.

6. Lemon, Early Visitors to Haworth, 73–85.

7. Ibid., 124.

8. Ibid., 126.

9. Brontë Society, Brontë Society Transactions, Vol. 1 (1895–2001).

10. Lemon, Early Visitors to Haworth, 99.

11. Brontë, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Smith, 1:312.