Select Bibliography

Unless otherwise stated, references are to the Oxford World’s Classics editions of the Brontë novels, in their most recent paperback issues.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre, edited by Margaret Smith, with an introduction and revised notes by Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford 2008)

The Professor, edited by Margaret Smith and Herbert Rosengarten, with an introduction by Margaret Smith (Oxford, 2008)

Shirley, edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Margaret Smith, with an introduction and notes by Janet Gezari (Oxford, 2008)

Villette, edited by Margaret Smith, with an introduction and revised notes by Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford, 2008)

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights, text edited by Ian Jack, with an introduction and additional notes by Helen Small (Oxford, 2009)

Anne Brontë

Agnes Grey, edited by Robert Inglesfield and Hilda Marsden, with an introduction and additional notes by Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford, 2010)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, edited by Herbert Rosengarten, with an introduction and additional notes by Josephine McDonagh (Oxford, 2008)

A Literary Friendship: Letters to Lady Alwyne Compton 1869–1881, from Thomas Westwood (London, 1914)

Adamson, Alan H., Mr. Charlotte Brontë: The Life of Arthur Bell Nicholls (Montreal, 2008)

Alexander, Christine, The Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë (Oxford, 1983)

———, and Sellars, Jane, The Art of the Brontës (Cambridge, 1995)

———, and Smith, Margaret (eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Brontës (Oxford, 2006)

Allott, Miriam (ed.), The Brontës: The Critical Heritage (London, 1974)

Anon., “The Recently Discovered Letters from Charlotte Brontë to Professor Constantin Heger,” BST, 5:24 (1914)

Anon., “The Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls,” BST, 15:79 (1969)

Anon., “Two Brussels Schoolfellows of Charlotte Brontë,” BST, 5:23 (1913)

Atkins, William, The Moor: Lives, Landscape, Literature (London, 2014)

Barker, Juliet R. V., “The Brontë Portraits: A Mystery Solved,” BST, 20:1 (1990)

———, “Subdued Expectations: Charlotte Brontë’s Marriage Settlement,” BST, 19:1–2 (1986)

Barnard, Robert, “Dickens and the Brontës,” BST, 25:2 (2000)

Barrett, Sarah, A Room of Their Own: 80 Years of the Brontë Parsonage Museum 1928–2008 (Kendal, 2008)

Bellamy, Joan, “More precious than rubies”: Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë, Strong-minded Woman (Beverley, 2002)

Bentley, Phyllis, The Brontës and Their World (London, 1969)

Bostridge, Mark, “Charlotte Brontë and George Richmond,” BST, 17:86 (1976)

———, Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend (London, 2008)

Brontë, Patrick, The Cottage in the Wood; or, The Art of Becoming Rich and Happy (Bradford, 1815)

———, Cottage Poems (Halifax, 1811)

———, The Rural Minstrel: A Miscellany of Descriptive Poems (Halifax, 1813)

Chadwick, Ellis H., “A Gift from M. le Professeur Constantin Heger to Charlotte Brontë,” The Nineteenth Century and After (April 1917)

———, In the Footsteps of the Brontës (London, 1914)

Chapman, Maria Weston (ed.), Harriet Martineaus Autobiography (3 vols.; London, third edition, 1887)

Chapple, J. A. V., assisted by John Geoffrey Sharps, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Portrait in Letters (Manchester, 2007)

Chapple, J. A. V., and Shelston, Alan (eds.), Further Letters of Mrs. Gaskell (Manchester, 2003)

Chitham, Edward (ed.), The Poems of Anne Brontë: A New Text and Commentary (London, 1979)

———, and Winnifrith, T. J., Brontë Facts and Brontë Problems (London, 1983)

Clark, Cumberland, Charles Dickens and the Yorkshire Schools (London, 1918)

Cochrane, Margaret and Robert, My Dear Boy: The Life of Arthur Bell Nicholls, B.A., Husband of Charlotte Brontë (Beverley, 1999)

Davies, Stevie, Emily Brontë: Heretic (London, 1994)

Depage, Henri, La Vie d’Antoine Depage 1862–1925 (Brussels, 1956)

Dinsdale, Ann, Old Haworth (Keighley, 1999)

———, The Brontës at Haworth (London, 2006)

Easson, Angus, “Two Suppressed Opinions in Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë,” BST, 16:4 (1974).

Feaver, William, The Art of John Martin (Oxford, 1975)

Fermi, Sarah, “The Brontës at the Clergy Daughters’ School: When Did They Leave?” BST, 21:6 (1996)

———, “Mellaney Hayne: Charlotte Brontë’s School Friend,” BST, 27:3 (2002)

Foister, S. R., “The Brontë Portraits,” BST, 18:5 (1985)

Frank, Katherine, A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë (Boston, 1990)

Fraser, Rebecca, The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë and Her Family (New York, 1988)

Gérin, Winifred, Charlotte Brontë (Oxford, 1967)

———, Emily Brontë (Oxford, 1971)

——— (ed.), Charlotte Brontë, Five Novelettes, transcribed from the original manuscripts and edited by Winifred Gérin (London, 1971)

Gordon, Lyndall, Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (London, 1994)

Hargreaves, G. D., “The Publishing of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell,” BST, 15:79 (1969)

Hatfield, C. W., “Charlotte Brontë and Hartley Coleridge, 1840” (includes “Ashworth”), BST, 10:1 (1940)

Holgate, Ivy, “The Structure of Shirley,” BST, 14:2 (1962)

Hook, Ruth, “The Father of the Family,” BST, 17:2 (1977)

Hopewell, D. G., “Cowan Bridge,” BST, 6:31 (1921)

Ingham, Patricia, The Brontës (Authors in Context) (Oxford, 2006)

Kay, Brian, and Knowles, James, “Where Jane Eyre and Mary Barton were Born,” BST, 15:2 (1967)

Kellett, Jocelyn, Haworth Parsonage: The Home of the Brontës (Keighley, 1977)

Lane, Margaret, The Brontë Story (London, 1953)

Lever, Sir T., “Charlotte Brontë and George Smith: An Extract from the late Sir Tresham Lever’s Unpublished Biography of George Smith,” BST, 17:87 (1977)

Leyland, Francis A., The Brontë Family, with Special Reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë (2 vols.; London, 1886)

Liddington, Jill, “Anne Lister and Emily Brontë 1838–1839: Landscape with Figures,” BST, 26:1 (2001)

Lock, John, and Dixon, Canon W. T., A Man of Sorrow: The Life, Letters and Times of the Rev. Patrick Brontë (London, 1965)

Lonoff, Sue, “An Unpublished Memoir by Paul Heger,” BST, 20:6 (1992)

——— (ed.), Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë: The Belgian Essays (Yale, 1996)

Macdonald, Frederika, “The Brontës at Brussels,” Woman at Home (July 1894)

———, The Secret of Charlotte Brontë (London, 1914)

MacEwan, Helen, The Brontës in Brussels (London, 2014)

Miller, Lucasta, The Brontë Myth (London, 2001)

Morden, Barbara C., John Martin: Apocalypse Now! (Newcastle, 2010)

Oram, Eanne, “Brief for Miss Branwell,” BST, 14:4 (1964)

Palmer, Geoffrey, Dear Martha: The Letters of Arthur Bell Nicholls to Martha Brown (1862–1878), described and transcribed by Geoffrey Palmer (Keighley, 2004)

Ratchford, Fannie Elizabeth, The Brontës’ Web of Childhood (New York, 1941)

Ray, Gordon N. (ed.), The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, collected and edited by Gordon N. Ray (4 vols.; London, 1946)

Robinson, Mary, Emily Brontë (1883)

Ruijssenaars, Eric, Charlotte Brontë’s Promised Land: The Pensionnat Heger and Other Brontë Places in Brussels (Keighley, 2000)

———, The Pensionnat Revisited: More Light Shed on the Brussels of the Brontës (Leiden, 2003)

Seaward, Mark R. D., “Charlotte Brontë’s Napoleonic Relic,” BST, 17:3 (1978)

Shorter, Clement K., The Brontës, Life and Letters: being an attempt to present a full and final record of the lives of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë from the biographies of Mrs. Gaskell and others, and from numerous hitherto unpublished manuscripts and letters (2 vols.; London, 1908)

Shuttleworth, Sally, Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (Cambridge, 1996)

Smith, Margaret, “Newly Acquired Brontë Letters, Transcriptions and Notes,” BST, 21:7 (1996)

Spielmann, M. H., The Inner History of the Brontë–Heger Letters (London, 1919)

Stevens, Joan (ed.), Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere (Auckland, 1972)

Stirling, A. M. W., The Richmond Papers (London, 1926)

Stoneman, Patsy, Brontë Transformations: The Cultural Dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights (Hemel Hempstead, 1996)

———, Charlotte Brontë (Tavistock, 2013)

Taylor, Mary, The First Duty of Women: A Series of Articles Reprinted from the Victoria Magazine 1865 to 1870 (London, 1870)

———, Miss Miles: A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago, with an introduction by Janet H. Murray (Oxford, 1990)

Thompson, E. P., The Making of the English Working Class (Harmondsworth, 1991)

Thormählen, Marianne (ed.), The Brontës in Context (Cambridge, 2012)

Uglow, Jenny, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (London, 1993)

Weir, Edith M., “Cowan Bridge: New Light from Old Documents,” BST, 11:56 (1946)

———, “The Hegers and a Yorkshire Family,” BST, 14:3 (1963)

———, “New Brontë Material Comes to Light,” BST, 11:4 (1949)

Whitbread, Helena (ed.), No Priest but Love: Journals of Anne Lister 1824–1826 (London, 1992)

Whitehead, Barbara, Charlotte Brontë and Her “dearest Nell”: The Story of a Friendship (Otley, 1993)

Whitworth, Alan, Thornton Through Time (Stroud, 2011)

Wise, T. J., and Symington, J. A. (eds.), The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë (2 vols.; Oxford, 1936, 1938)

Wood, Steven, Haworth, “A strange uncivilized little place” (Stroud, 2012)

———, Haworth, Oxenhope & Stanbury from Old Maps (Stroud, 2014)

———, Haworth, Oxenhope & Stanbury from Old Photographs (Stroud, 2011). Vol. 1: Domestic & Social Life; Vol. 2: Trade & Industry

Yates, W. W., The Father of the Brontës, His Life and Work at Dewsbury and Hartshead (Leeds, 1897)