“Acton Bell” (pseudonym) see Brontë, Anne
Alexander, Christine, 3.1, 5.1, nts.1, nts.2
Andrews, Anna (teacher at Cowan Bridge), 2.1, 2.2, nts.1
Arblay, Frances d’ (Fanny Burney): The Wanderer, 10.1
Athenaeum (magazine), 10.1, 11.1
Athénée Royal (school, Brussels), 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
Atkinson, Frances (née Walker), 1.1, 3.1, 4.1
Atkinson, Thomas, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, 7.1; Emma, 14.1
Aykroyd, Tabitha (“Tabby”): taken on as servant, 2.1; character, 3.1; oversees Brontë children, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1; accident, 6.2; ailing, 12.1; relates stories to Elizabeth Gaskell, 14.1; confronts Patrick Brontë over his treatment of CB, 14.2; illness and death, 14.3, 14.4
Aylott and Jones (publishers), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, nts.1
Baer, Ann, n
Banagher, County Offaly, Ireland, 9.1, 14.1, bm1.1; Banagher Royal Free School, 14.2 and n
Barbier, Auguste, 8.1, 9.1; “L’Idole,” 9.2
Barker, Juliet, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1, 12.1, bm1.1, nts.1, nts.2
Bassompierre, Louise de, 7.1, nts.1
Bell, Harriette, and n
Bell, Mary Anna (later Nicholls), 14.1, bm1.1
Birstall, West Yorkshire, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Blackwood’s Magazine, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1
Blake Hall, Mirfield, 6.1, 6.2
Blakeway, Elizabeth, 14.1, 14.2
Blanche, Mademoiselle (teacher, Brussels), 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 7.1, 8.1; relic of coffin, 8.2
Bradford, West Yorkshire, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2
Branwell family of Penzance, 1.1, 9.1
Branwell, Charlotte (née Branwell, CB’s aunt), 1.1, 1.2
Branwell, Elizabeth (CB’s aunt): life in Penzance, 1.1, 4.1; in Thornton, 1.2; in Haworth to nurse sister, 2.1, 2.2; moves to Haworth, 2.3; as mother-substitute to Brontë children, 2.4, 5.1; character and habits, 1.3, 3.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2; finances and estate, 2.5, 3.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2; as housekeeper, 3.3, 6.4, 6.5; teaches nieces, 3.4; appearance, 4.3; relations with brother-in-law, 4.4; helps set Branwell up in business, 6.6; suggests holiday in Liverpool, 6.7; offers to support school plan, 6.8; lends money to nieces for education abroad, 6.9; illness and death, 7.3; burial, 7.4; will, 7.5, 9.1; leaves money to nieces, 7.6
Branwell, Thomas (CB’s maternal grandfather)
Bretton, Dr. John Graham (Villette), 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Brewster, Sir David, and n
Bridlington, Yorkshire, 6.1, 6.2
Britannia (magazine), 11.1
British and Continental Mercury (newspaper), 7.1
Brontë Parsonage Museum, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 14.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
Brontë, Anne (CB’s sister): birth and childhood, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3; quizzed by father, 2.4; imaginative life, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1; and bog burst, 2.6; home life with sisters, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2; caricatured by CB in “The Young Men’s Magazine,” 4.3; “like twins” with Emily, 4.4, 9.1; and Gondal saga, 4.5, 9.2, 9.3; Diary Papers, 4.6, 6.1, 9.4, 9.5, 11.1; in portraits by CB, 4.7; depicted in The Brontë Sisters by Branwell, 4.8; appearance, 4.9, 6.2; attitudes to love and marriage, 5.2; at Roe Head School, 5.3; leaves Roe Head, 6.3; takes up governess post at Blake Hall, 6.4; social awkwardness, 6.5; stammer, 6.6, 6.7; conduct as governess, 6.8; feelings towards animals, 6.9, 12.1; feelings for William Weightman, 6.10, 7.1; introversion, 6.11; post at Thorp Green, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.6; inherits money from aunt, 7.4; aware of Emily’s writing, 9.7; and school plan, 9.8; secret understanding of Branwell’s situation, 9.9, 9.10; resigns post at Thorp Green, 9.11; and Branwell’s decline, 9.12, 9.13, 11.2; trip to York with Emily, 9.14; writing “Passages in the Life of an Individual” (Agnes Grey), 9.15, 9.16; poems, 10.1, 10.2; pseudonym “Acton Bell,” 10.3, 10.4, 11.3; controversy over “brothers Bell,” 10.5, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.2; Poems published, 10.6; model for Mary Rivers in Jane Eyre, 11.7; publication of Agnes Grey, 11.8; dealings with Thomas Newby, 11.9, 11.10, 11.11; affected by brother’s decline, 11.12; in London with CB, 11.13; illness, 12.3, 12.4; fortitude in final days, 12.5; death and burial, 12.6; grave, 14.1
WORKS:
poems: “I will not mourn thee, lovely one,” 7.1; “A dreadful darkness closes in,” 12.1
prose: Agnes Grey, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 11.6, 11.7, 13.1
Brontë, Charlotte:
BIOGRAPHY/PERSONAL LIFE: birth and christening, 1.1; childhood, 2.1; mother’s death, 2.2; memories of mother, 2.3; leaves home for Bradford, 2.4; childhood games and activities, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2; at Cowan Bridge School, 2.6, 2.7; dislike of school regime, 2.8, 2.9; sent back to Cowan Bridge, 2.10; at Roe Head School as pupil, 4.1, 4.2; dreams of dead sisters, 4.3; visits Red House in Gomersal, 4.4; tutors sisters at home, 4.5, 4.6; superintendent of new Sunday School, 4.7; depicted in The Brontë Sisters by Branwell, 4.8; exhibits drawings at Fine Arts exhibition, 4.9; takes post at Roe Head, 4.10; mental distress at Roe Head, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1; religious doubts, 5.3; decreasing control over Glass Town saga, 5.4; sends poems to Southey, 5.5; replies to Southey’s letter, 5.6; quarrels with Margaret Wooler, 6.2; returns to work at Heald’s House, 6.3; mental breakdown at Heald’s House, 6.4; marriage proposal from Henry Nussey, 6.5; marriage proposal from David Pryce, 6.6; visits Branwell’s studio in Bradford, 6.7; governess to Sidgwick family, 6.8; holiday with Ellen at Easton and Bridlington, 6.9; sees the sea, 6.10; responds to William Weightman’s Valentines, 6.11; sends writing to Hartley Coleridge, 6.12; governess to White family, 6.13; plans to establish own school, 6.14, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2; inspired by Mary Taylor to travel abroad, 6.15; journey to Brussels in 1842, 7.1; early months at Pensionnat Heger, 7.2; separate lessons from Constantin Heger, 7.3; offered a part-time teaching post at Pensionnat, 7.4; in Brussels, summer 1842, 7.5; called home by aunt’s death, 7.6; returns to Brussels in 1843, 7.7; learning German, 8.2; attends Mardi Gras carnival with Constantin Heger, 8.3; gives English lessons to Constantin Heger, 8.4; despondency and loneliness in Brussels, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8; essay read at speech day, 8.9 and n; planning novel or story, 8.10; goes to confession, 8.11; gives in notice, 8.12; leaves Pensionnat, 8.13; offered post at Manchester school, 9.3; corresponds with Constantin Heger, 9.4, 9.5; produces school prospectus, 9.6; solicits business for school, 9.7; abandons school scheme, 9.8; holiday with Ellen Nussey in Hathersage, 9.9, 9.10; thinks of going to Paris, 9.11; publishes translations from the French, 9.12; writing novel (“The Master”), 9.13; discovers Emily’s poems, 10.1; plans to publish poems with sisters, 10.2; proposes jointly authored novel to Aylott and Jones, 10.3; Poems published, 10.4; goes to Manchester with Emily, 10.5; accompanies father to Manchester for eye operation, 10.6; begins Jane Eyre, 10.7; sends Poems to admired authors, 11.1; Jane Eyre accepted by Smith, Elder & Co., 11.2; Jane Eyre published, 11.3; CB reveals authorship to father, 11.4; begins new novel, 11.5; Jane Eyre adapted for the stage, 11.6; anonymity threatened, 11.7; travels to London with Anne, 11.8; reveals identity to Smith, 11.9; visits the Opera, 11.10; and Branwell’s death, 12.1; Emily’s illness and death, 12.2; takes Anne to Scarborough, 12.3; Anne’s death and burial, 12.4; in Filey with Ellen, 12.5; and bereavement of siblings, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2; Shirley published, 13.3; “frenzy” around identity of “Currer Bell,” 13.4; visits Smiths in London in 1849, 13.5; visits London in summer of 1850, 13.6; trip to Scotland, 1850, 13.7; James Taylor proposes, 13.8; writing Villette, 13.9, 14.3; visits London in summer of 1851, 13.10; visits phrenologist, 13.11; visits the Gaskells in Manchester, 14.4; revisits Scarborough and Filey, 14.5; Arthur Nicholls proposes, 14.6; visits London in January 1853, 14.7; falls out with Ellen Nussey, 14.8; secures father’s consent to marriage, 14.9; claims to be giving up writing, 14.10; wedding, 14.11; honeymoon in Wales and Ireland, 14.12; accident in Gap of Dunloe, 14.13; pregnancy, 14.14; illness and death, 14.15; burial, 14.16
CHARACTERISTICS AND PERSONALITY: dutiful nature, prl.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1; physical appearance and manner, prl.2, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 7.2, 8.2, 8.3, 11.1, 13.1, nts.1; social isolation, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.5, 4.6, 6.2, 6.3, 7.3, 9.1; questioning of authority, 2.3, 2.4, 4.7, 9.2, 11.2, 11.3; intellectual distinction, 4.8, 4.9, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4; conscience, 4.10; love for siblings, 4.11, 6.5, 9.3; self-consciousness, 4.12, 6.6, 7.5, 8.5, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5; as teacher, 4.13, 4.14, 5.1, 7.6, 8.6, 8.7, 9.4; household skills and duties, 4.15, 6.7, 9.5, 9.6, 14.1; self-suppression, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 9.7, 9.8; anger, 5.5, 6.8, 9.9, 13.6; imaginative flights and occasional extrovertism, 6.9, 6.10, 8.8; as governess, 6.11, 6.12; sensitivity to criticism, 13.7
alter egos and pseudonyms, 3.1; “Charles Townshend,” 4.1, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3; “Charles Thunder,” 5.1; “Currer Bell,” 10.1, 10.2, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 13.1, 13.2; “Miss Brown,” 11.9, 11.10; “Miss Fraser,” 13.3
HEALTH: frailness, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 14.1; short sight, 4.3, 4.4, 14.2; diet, 4.5, 6.1; trance-like states, 5.1, 5.2, 11.1; nervous disorders and depression, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2; fears of blindness, 9.3; teeth, 10.1
LITERARY, ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE: knowledge of French language, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2; interest in visual arts, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 7.2; as poet, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1; as artist, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 7.4; portraits of Anne Brontë, 4.6; ambition to write and publish, 5.3, 5.4, 8.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 10.2; view of Emily Brontë’s writing, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 12.1 and n, 13.1; view of Anne Brontë’s writing, 10.6, 10.7, 13.2
dealings with publishers, 10.1, 11.1; Chambers, 10.2; Aylott and Jones, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6; Henry Colburn, 10.7; Smith, Elder & Co., 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 13.1; writing methods, 10.8, 11.5, 14.1; controversy over “brothers Bell,” 10.9, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 12.2
early imaginative games and writing, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1; minuscule texts, 3.4, 8.1; imaginary world, 6.1, 8.2, 8.3; sophistications and continuations of Glass Town saga, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 8.4
translations: from French, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1; from German, 8.2 and n
OPINIONS AND IDEAS: religious views and faith, prl.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1; hero-worship of Wellington, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.3, 8.2, 9.1, 13.2; politics, 4.2, 11.2; love and marriage, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.3, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4; children, 6.3, 14.5, 14.6; finances and attitude to money, 6.4, 7.4, 7.5, 8.4, 9.4, 9.5, 10.2, 10.3, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5 and n, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10; Belgians, 7.6, 7.7, 8.5, 8.6; genius, 8.7, 8.8; class politics, 9.6, 11.6; sexual politics, 9.7, 11.7, 11.8, 13.3, 13.4; heroines, 10.4, 11.9; revolutionary sensibility, 11.10, 13.5; women and writing, 14.11; parenthood, 14.12; war, 14.13
PORTRAITS OF: The Brontë Sisters, 4.1, 14.1; portrait by Mary Dixon, 8.1; portrait by George Richmond, 8.2, 13.1, 14.2, bm1.1, bm1.2; possible self-portrait, 8.3; photograph mistaken for one of CB, 14.3 and n
RELATIONSHIPS: with father, 2.1, 2.2, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3; with brother, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.2; with Ellen Nussey, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.3, 9.6, 11.3; with William Weightman, 6.4; with Constantin Heger, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 10.4, 11.4; gifts from Heger, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9; letters to Heger, 9.10, 9.11, 9.12, 9.13, 9.14, bm1.1; letters from Heger, 9.15, 9.16, 9.17, 9.18, bm1.2; with Zoë Heger, 7.5, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 9.19, 9.20; with George Smith, 13.2, 13.3, 14.4, 14.5; ungracious over George Smith’s engagement, 14.6; with Arthur Bell Nicholls, 10.5; draws portrait of Nicholls, 10.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10, 14.11, 14.12, 14.13, 14.14
WORKS:
Angrian stories and writing: “Farewell to Angria,” 2.1, 6.1, nts.1; “History of the Year,” 3.1, 3.2, 4.1; “The Young Men’s Magazine,” 3.3, 4.2; “The Green Dwarf,” 4.3; “High Life in Verdopolis,” 4.4, 8.1; “Arthuriana,” 4.5; “The Bridal,” 4.6; “Roe Head Journal,” 5.1, 5.2, 5.3; “Stancliffe’s Hotel,” 6.2; “Mina Laury,” 6.3; “Caroline Vernon,” 6.4, 6.5, 7.1; “Ashworth,” 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.2, 9.1; “Henry Hastings,” 6.9, 6.10, 7.3; “The Spell,” 8.2, 9.2, bm1.1; “Scrap Book,” 8.3; “Passing Events,” 9.3
art works: St. Martin’s Parsonage, Birmingham, 4.1; The Atheist Viewing the Dead Body of His Wife, 4.2; Bolton Priory, 4.3; Kirkstall Abbey, 4.4; William Weightman, 6.1; Watermill, 7.1, 7.2 and n, bm1.1 and n; Ashburnham Church on the Valley-Land, bm1.2 and n
critical writing: “A Word to The Quarterly,” 13.1; “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell,” 13.2
French devoirs, 7.1 and n; “L’Ingratitude,” 7.2, 7.3; “Le Nid,” 7.4; “L’Immensité de Dieu,” 7.5; “La Mort de Napoléon,” 8.1; “La Chute des Feuilles,” 8.2; “Le But de la Vie,” 8.3; “Letter d’un pauvre Peintre à un grand Seigneur,” 8.4
poems: “We wove a web in childhood,” 5.1; “I gave, at first, Attention close,” 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, nts.1; “Pilate’s Wife’s Dream,” 10.1; “Mementos,” 10.2; “Frances,” 10.3; “Gilbert,” 10.4; “He saw my heart’s woe,” 11.1
published works see under individual titles: Jane Eyre, Poems, The Professor, Shirley, Villette
unfinished stories: “The Story of Willie Ellin,” 14.1, 14.2; “Emma,” 14.3
Brontë, Elizabeth (CB’s sister), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1; school in Wakefield, 2.2; at Cowan Bridge School, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; illness and death, 2.6, 12.1 and n, 12.2, 12.3; funeral, 2.7
Brontë, Emily Jane (CB’s sister): birth and childhood, 1.1, 2.1; imaginative life, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1; quizzed by father, 2.3; at Cowan Bridge School, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7; and bog burst, 2.8; housekeeping duties, 3.3, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2; home life with sisters, 4.1, 9.3; caricatured by CB in “The Young Men’s Magazine,” 4.2; appearance, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.3, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 13.1; relationship with Anne, 4.6, 6.4, 9.4; and Gondal saga, 4.7, 9.5, 9.6, 10.1; Diary Papers, 4.8, 6.5, 9.7, 11.1; poor spelling, 4.9; depicted in The Brontë Sisters by Branwell, 4.10; depicted in remaining fragment of The Gun Group, 4.11 and n; goes to school at Roe Head, 4.12, 5.4; attitudes to love and marriage, 5.5; homesickness, 5.6, 7.2, 7.3; poetry, 5.7, 9.8, 9.9, 10.2, 11.2; formidable character and anti-social tendencies, 5.8, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.4, 7.5, 9.10, 10.3, 12.1; love of animals, 5.9, 6.9, 8.1; paintings and drawings, 5.10, 7.6, 7.7 and n, bm1.1 and n; pursuing study at home, 5.11; post at Law Hill, 6.10; as teacher, 6.11, 7.8; inspiration for, and composition of, Wuthering Heights, 6.12, 9.11; immune to Weightman’s charm, 6.13; nicknamed “The Major,” 6.14; violently disciplines Keeper, 6.15; on Branwell’s questionable success, 6.16; and school plan, 6.17, 7.9, 9.12; travels to Brussels, 7.10; at the Pensionnat Heger, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14; intellectual distinction, 7.15, 7.16; antipathy to Constantin Heger, 7.17; teaching music at Pensionnat, 7.18, 7.19; attitude to religion, 7.20; spends summer in Brussels in 1842, 7.21; called home by aunt’s death, 7.22; inherits money from aunt, 7.23; finances, 7.24, 11.3; bitten by dog, 8.2; and Branwell’s decline, 9.13, 9.14; visits York with Anne, 9.15; anger at CB’s discovery of poems, 10.4; insists on anonymity, 10.5; pseudonym “Ellis Bell,” 10.6 and n, 10.7, 11.4; controversy over “brothers Bell,” 10.8, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 12.2; Poems published, 10.9; scornful of publication, 10.10; accompanies CB to Manchester, 10.11; model for Diana
Rivers in Jane Eyre, 11.1; rescues Branwell from burning bed, 11.2, nts.1; publication of Wuthering Heights, 11.3, 11.4; dealings with Newby, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7; planning another novel, 11.8; model for Shirley Keeldar in Shirley, 11.9, 13.1; illness and death, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
WORKS:
essays (French devoirs), 7.1, nts.1
poems: “The Bluebell,” 5.1; “A little while, a little while,” 5.2; “Loud without the wind was roaring,” 5.3; “The Old Stoic,” 10.1; “The Prisoner,” 11.1
prose: Wuthering Heights, 2.1, 6.1, 10.1 and n, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Brontë, Maria (CB’s sister), 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2; school in Wakefield, 2.4; at Cowan Bridge School, 2.5, 2.6; illness at school, 2.7, 2.8; death, 2.9, 12.1 and n, 12.2; paragon character, 2.10, 3.3
Brontë, Maria (née Branwell, CB’s mother): family background and youth, 1.1; letters, 1.2; essay, 1.3; appearance, 1.4; character, 1.5; engagement to Patrick Brontë, 1.6; possessions lost in shipwreck, 1.7; wedding, 1.8; moves to Thornton, 1.9; friendship with Elizabeth Firth, 1.10, 1.11; births of children 1.12; relations with Patrick Brontë, 2.1, 2.2; dress cut up, 2.3; last illness, 2.4; death, 2.5, 12.1
Brontë, Patrick (CB’s father): background and youth, 1.1; family name, 1.2, 1.3; religious views, 1.4, 2.1; family relations, 1.5, 1.6, 9.1; career as teacher, 1.7; at Cambridge University, 1.8; and money, 1.9, 2.2, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.2; Irishness, 1.10, 1.11; takes Holy Orders, 1.12; curacies, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17; relationship with Mary Burder, 1.18, 2.3; poetry, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 5.1; feelings for Jane Fennell, 1.22; political sympathies, 1.23, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1; manner and appearance, 1.24, 2.4, 4.2, 6.2, 8.2; proposes to Maria Branwell, 1.25; wedding, 1.26; move to Thornton, 1.27; anxieties about insurrection, 1.28, 1.29; guns, 1.30, 2.5, 14.1; move to Haworth, 2.6; social isolation, 2.7; habits, 2.8, 2.9, 3.2, 9.3, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1; letters to newspapers, 2.10, 8.3, 8.4; strong opinions and reported eccentricities, 2.11, 2.12, 3.3, 4.3; sensibility, 2.13, 2.14, 10.2; proposes to Elizabeth Firth, 2.15; proposes to Isabella Dury, 2.16; tests children with mask, 2.17; experiences “extraordinary disruption” of bog burst, 2.18; tutors son, 3.4, 4.4; health, 3.5, 6.3; relations with sister-in-law, 4.5, 7.3; in the pulpit, 4.6; ambitions for his son, 4.7, 4.8, 6.4, 9.4; contentions with local Nonconformists and Dissenters, 5.2, 6.5, 8.5, 9.5, 9.6; speaks at 1837 hustings, 6.6; sets Branwell up in business, 6.7; accompanies Charlotte and Emily to Brussels, 7.4; home-made phrase-book, 7.5; visits Waterloo, 7.6; deteriorating eyesight, 8.6, 9.7, 10.3, 10.4, 14.2, 14.3; consumption of alcohol, 8.7, 9.8; support of church school, 9.9, 9.10; disgust at Robinson affair, 9.11; unaware of daughters’ literary activity, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1; operation for cataracts, 10.7; told of publication of Jane Eyre, 11.2; pride in CB’s achievements, 11.3; concern for son, 11.4; grief for son, 12.2; and daughter Anne’s illness, 12.3; and James Taylor’s interest in CB, 13.2, 13.3; and Arthur Nicholls’s interest in CB, 14.4, 14.5; and CB’s illness and death, 14.6; fondness for Arthur Nicholls, bm1.1; will, bm1.2; death and funeral, bm1.3; Winter-Evening Thoughts (poems), 1.31; Cottage Poems (poems), 1.32, 1.33, 1.34; The Maid of Killarney (prose), 1.35; The Cottage in the Wood (prose), 1.36, 11.5; “The Phenomenon” (poem), 2.19
Brontë, Patrick Branwell (CB’s brother): birth and childhood, 1.1, 2.1; imaginative life, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2; quizzed by father, 2.3; precocity, 3.3, 4.1; education, 2.4, 3.4, 4.2; and bog burst, 2.5; and deaths of sisters Maria and Elizabeth, 2.6; social isolation, 3.5 and n; toys, 3.6; contributions to Glass Town and Angrian sagas, 3.7, 3.8, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1; appearance and manner, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 6.2; caricatured as “Wiggins” by CB, 4.7; thinks Rydings “Paradise,” 4.8; teaches at Sunday School, 4.9; perceived Irishness, 4.10, 6.3; lack of religious zeal, 4.11; trains in art, 4.12, 4.13; applies to Royal Academy of Art, 4.14 and n; career as professional artist, 5.3, 6.4; Freemason, 5.4; ambition to be writer, 5.5, 5.6, 6.5, 7.1; opium-taking, 5.7, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1; writes to Blackwood’s Magazine, 5.8, 5.9, 7.2; writes to Wordsworth, 5.10 and n; burnt in effigy after defending father at hustings, 6.6; moves to Bradford studio, 6.7; friendship with William Weightman, 6.8, 7.3; misleads Mary Taylor, 6.9; tutor to Postlethwaite family, 6.10; dissolute behaviour, 6.11, 6.12, 9.4, 10.1, 10.2, 11.2, 11.3; possibly fathers illegitimate child, 6.13; writes to Hartley Coleridge, 6.14; dismissed from job in Broughton, 6.15; takes job at Sowerby Bridge railway station, 6.16; sensibility, 6.17; transfers to Luddenden Foot, 6.18; publishes poems as “Northangerland,” 6.19, 7.4, 9.5; dismissed from job at Luddenden Foot, 7.5; unemployed at home, 7.6; distressed by aunt’s death, 7.7; takes up post as tutor to Edmund Robinson, 7.8; liaison with Lydia Robinson, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8; writing novel, 9.9; unaware of sisters’ literary activity, 10.3; hears news of Edmund Robinson’s death, 10.4; debts, 11.4; sets bed on fire, 11.5; increasing depression and psychotic symptoms, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8; last illness and death, 12.1
WORKS:
art works: Terror, 4.1; Queen Esther, 4.2; The Brontë Sisters, 4.3, 13.1; The Gun Group, 4.4 and n, 13.2; portraits commissioned in Bradford, 6.1; A Parody (caricature), 11.1 and n
poems: “At dead of midnight—drearily,” 6.1; translations of Odes of Horace, 6.2; “Heaven and Earth,” 6.3; “Morley Hall,” 10.1 and n; “Penmaenmawr,” 14.1
prose: “And the Weary are at Rest” (novel), 9.1; “The Wool is Rising” (story), 9.2
Brookroyd, Birstall (home of Nussey family), 6.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Broughton-in-Furness, Lancashire (now Cumbria), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Brown, John (sexton): sponsors Branwell Brontë into Freemasons, 5.1; friendship with Branwell Brontë, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1; anecdotes about Branwell Brontë, 6.3; Arthur Nicholls’s landlord, 10.1, 14.1; letter from Branwell Brontë, 11.1; and Branwell Brontë’s death, 12.1; disapproval of Arthur Nicholls, 14.2
Brown, Martha (Brontë family servant): loyalty, 4.1; joins household, 6.1; and Brontë memorabilia, 8.1 and n; as servant, 9.1, 13.1; information given to Elizabeth Gaskell, 12.1, 14.1; initial antipathy to Arthur Nicholls, 14.2; and CB’s last illness and death, 14.3, 14.4; in Patrick Brontë’s will, bm1.1; moves to Banagher, bm1.2
Brunty, Alice, or Eleanor (née McClory, CB’s paternal grandmother), 1.1, 1.2
Brunty, Hugh (CB’s paternal grandfather): alternative spellings of name, 1.1; family background, 1.2; domestic life, 1.3
Brunty, Hugh (Patrick Brontë’s brother)
Brunty, William (Patrick Brontë’s brother)
Brussels, Belgium, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Buckworth, Reverend John, 1.1, 2.1
Burder, Mary, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2
Burdett-Coutts, Angela, 11.1, 14.1
Burns, Helen (Jane Eyre), 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 2.3, 11.1, 11.2 and n
Butterfield, Francis, 11.1 and n
Byron, George Gordon, prl.1th Baron, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1
Carroll, Lewis see Dodgson, Charles
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (Kate Middleton)
Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, 10.1
Chapel Royal, Brussels, 7.1, 7.2
Chapelle, Monsieur (teacher, Brussels), 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Coffee House, London, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, bm1.1
Chartism, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1
Châteaubriand, René, Vicomte de, 7.1, 7.2
Christian Remembrancer (periodical), 13.1
Clergy Daughters’ School, Cowan Bridge: establishment and situation, 2.1; trustees, 2.2, 10.1; curriculum, regime and fees, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, nts.1; identification with Lowood School in Jane Eyre, 2.6, 2.7, 13.1; food, 2.8; blamed for CB’s ill-health, 2.9; typhus outbreak, 2.10
Cockill, Elizabeth, and sisters
Coleridge, Hartley, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
consumption (tuberculosis), 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2
Corn Laws and political unrest
Crimsworth, William (The Professor), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1
Cuba House, Banagher, and n
“Currer Bell” (pseudonym) see Brontë, Charlotte
Currer, Miss, n
De Quincey, Thomas, 5.1, 6.1, nts.1; Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 5.2
Delavigne, Casimir Jean-François
Dewsbury (West Yorkshire), 1.1, 6.1
Dickens, Charles: and Jane Eyre, 2.1, 13.1, nts.1; as possible model to CB, 12.1, 14.1; opportunities to meet, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5; as a social commentator, 13.6, 14.2; Nicholas Nickleby, 2.2 and n, 13.7, nts.2; David Copperfield, 13.8; Sketches by Boz, 14.3; Oliver Twist, 14.4; Barnaby Rudge, 14.5
Dixon family of Brussels, prl.1, prl.2, 8.1, 8.2
Dodgson, Charles (Lewis Carroll), n
Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly (periodical), 11.1
Drumballyroney, County Down, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1
Dublin University Magazine, 10.1
Dury, Reverend Theodore, 2.1 and n, 2.2
Earl of Liverpool (steamship), 7.1
Earnshaw, Catherine (Wuthering Heights), 10.1, 11.1, bm1.1
Eastlake, Lady see Elizabeth Rigby
Edinburgh Review (periodical), 13.1
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)
“Ellis Bell” (pseudonym) see Brontë, Emily
Emanuel, Paul (Villette), prl.1, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1, 14.1
Engels, Friedrich: Condition of the Working Class in England, 9.1
Evans, Ann (teacher at Cowan Bridge)
Evans, Mary Ann see Eliot, George, 14.1
Examiner (periodical), 11.1, 14.1
Eyre, Jane (Jane Eyre), 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1
Eyton, Reverend John, 1.1, 2.1
Félix, Eliza see “Rachel”
Fennell, Jane (née Branwell, first Mrs. John Fennell), 1.1, 1.2
Fennell, Jane see Morgan, Jane
Fennell, John, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1 and n, 9.1
Firth, Elizabeth see Franks, Elizabeth
Firth, John Scholefield, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2 and n
“Flossy” (spaniel), 6.1, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
Franks, Elizabeth (née Firth), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1
Garrs, Nancy, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1
Garrs, Sarah, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 12.1
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn: research for, and writing of, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, bm1.1, nts.1; impressions of Patrick Brontë, 1.2, 2.3, 4.1, 14.1, bm1.2; and criticisms of Life, 2.4; first access to Brontë juvenilia, 3.1; shown Branwell’s portrait of CB and sisters, 4.2; and opium, 5.1; and CB’s letters to Heger, 9.3, 9.4, bm1.3, bm1.4; fascination with CB, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2; view of CB’s feelings for Arthur Nicholls, 10.1; second thoughts about Emily Brontë, 12.1; writes to CB about Shirley, 13.3; meets CB, 13.4; friendship with CB, 14.2; has CB to stay in Manchester, 14.3; visits Haworth in 1853, 14.4; schemes to further CB’s romance, 14.5; thoughts on CB’s pregnancy and illness, 14.6; hears of CB’s death, bm1.5; Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2.5, 2.6, 5.2, 13.5, bm1.6, bm1.7; Mary Barton, 12.2, 13.6, 13.7; Ruth, 13.8; Cranford, 14.7
Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, 13.1, 14.1
Gérin, Winifred, 8.1; Charlotte Brontë, 8.2
Gomersal, West Yorkshire, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
Graham, Dr. Thomas John: Modern Domestic Medicine, 6.1 and n, 12.1
Grant, Reverend Joseph, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1
Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace
Greenwood family of Springhead
Greenwood, John, 4.1, 10.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
Greta Bridge, Yorkshire, 2.1, 6.1
Grimshaw, Reverend William, 1.1, 2.1
Grundy, Francis, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 11.1
Halifax Guardian (newspaper), 6.1, 8.1, 9.1
Halifax, West Yorkshire, 6.1, 10.1, 12.1
Hartley, Margaret (Isaac Kirby’s niece), 6.1, nts.1
Hartshead-cum-Clifton, Yorkshire, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Hathersage, Derbyshire, 9.1, 9.2
Haworth Parsonage, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1
Haworth Temperance Society, 8.1, 11.1
Haworth, West Yorkshire, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 10.1 and n; Haworth Moor, 2.3, 4.1, 14.1; bog burst, 2.4; 1837 election, 6.1, 8.1; day school opens, 9.1; post office, 9.2, 10.2, nts.1; pub (The Black Bull), 5.2, 6.2, 7.1, 11.1, bm1.1
Heald’s Hall, Liversedge, Yorkshire
Heald’s House (school), Dewsbury Moor, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights), 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
Heaton, William, 6.1
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, n
Heger family, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4; possession of Brontë papers and memorabilia, 8.5 and 8.6, 9.1, 13.1, bm1.1 and n
Heger, Constantin Georges Romain: object of CB’s affection, prl.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 14.1; used as a model in CB’s fiction, prl.2, 8.4, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.2, bm1.1; encourages wife to accept Brontë sisters as pupils, 7.1; background, 7.2; characteristics and manner, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.5; gives separate lessons to Brontë sisters, 7.6; teaching methods and literary taste, 7.7, 7.8, 8.6; and Emily Brontë, 7.9; advice to CB, 7.10, 8.7, 9.2; behaviour towards favoured pupils, 7.11, 7.12, bm1.2; writes to Patrick Brontë, 7.13, 7.14; feelings for CB, 7.15, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10, 8.11, 9.3; reprimands CB’s pupils, 8.12; takes English lessons from CB, 8.13; chill in relations, 8.14; CB describes as “the black Swan,” 8.15; gifts to CB, 8.16, 8.17, 8.18; encourages CB’s plan to set up a school, 8.19; sorrow at parting, 8.20; letters to CB, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, bm1.3; letters from CB, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.11, bm1.4; and Elizabeth Gaskell, 9.12, bm1.5; CB’s ideal reader, 10.1; and Ellen Nussey’s letters from CB, bm1.6
Heger, Louise, 9.1, bm1.1 and n
Heger, Zoë Claire (née Parent): accepts Brontë sisters as pupils, 7.1; background and family life, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1; as proprietress of Pensionnat, 7.4; care of charges, 7.5; offers Brontë sisters a second term, 7.6; goodwill towards Brontës, 7.7, 7.8, 8.2; growing wariness concerning CB, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1; surveillance techniques, 8.6; appearance, 8.7; accompanies CB to Ostend, 8.8; used as model in CB’s fiction, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 13.1; and fate of CB’s letters, 9.4, bm1.1, bm1.2; reads Villette, bm1.3; death, bm1.4
Helstone, Caroline (Shirley), 2.1, 11.1, 13.1, bm1.1
Henri, Frances (The Professor), 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
Herschel, Sir John, 11.1, 11.2
Hogg, James: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, 5.1
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
hyperemesis gravidarum (illness of pregnancy)
Jane Eyre (CB): autobiographical elements, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, bm1.1; originality of, 2.5, 9.2, 11.3, 11.4; suggested illustrations, 4.1; inspiration and composition, 8.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7; self-portrait in, 8.3; publication, 11.8; critical reception, 11.9, 12.2, 13.1; dedication of second edition to Thackeray, 11.10; third edition, 11.11; “A Word to The Quarterly,” 13.2
Jenkins family (Brussels), 7.1, 7.2
Kay-Shuttleworth, Lady Janet, 2.1, 13.1, 14.1
Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir James, 13.1, 14.1
Keeldar, Shirley (Shirley), 13.1; modelled on Emily Brontë, 11.1, 13.2
“Keeper” (mastiff), 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 12.1 and n, 12.2, 14.1
Keighley Mechanics Institute, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Keighley, West Yorkshire, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1
Kingston, Eliza, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
Kingston, Jane (née Branwell), 7.1
Kirby family of Bradford; see also Hartley, Margaret
Kirk Smeaton, West Yorkshire, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Koekelberg, Brussels, 7.1, 7.2
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 7.1, 7.2
Leeds Intelligencer (newspaper), 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Leeds Mercury (newspaper), 2.1, 11.1
Leeds, West Yorkshire, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1
Lewes, George Henry, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3 and n, 14.1
Leyland, Joseph Bentley, 6.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1
Lister, Miss (pupil at Roe Head), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Literary Gazette (periodical), 11.1, 14.1
Lockhart, J. G., 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2
Lowood School (Jane Eyre), 2.1, 2.2, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1
Macdonald, Frederika, 8.1 and n, 9.1; “The Brontës at Brussels,” 8.2, 8.3
“The Master” (CB) see The Professor
Manchester, 2.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2 and n, 14.1
Marie, Mademoiselle (teacher, Brussels)
Martin, John, 3.1, 6.1; Belshazzar’s Feast, 3.2; Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still, 3.3; The Deluge, 3.4; St. Paul Preaching at Athens, 3.5; Queen Esther, 4.1
Martineau, Harriet: recalls CB’s view of heroines in fiction, 10.1; intrigued by the identity of “Currer Bell,” 13.1; meets CB, 13.2; invites CB to Ambleside, 13.3; criticises Villette, 14.1; obituary of CB, bm1.1; Illustrations of Political Economy, 13.4; Deerbrook, 13.5; Letters on the Laws of Man’s Nature and Development, 13.6
Middleton, Kate see Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Millevoye, Charles Hubert, 9.1; “La Chute des Feuilles,” 8.1
Milnes, Richard Monckton, 6.1, 11.1, 14.1
Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de
Moore, Louis (Shirley), prl.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Moore, Robert (Shirley), 11.1, 13.1, bm1.1
Moore, Thomas: Life of Byron, 7.1
Morgan, Jane (née Fennell), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
Morgan, William, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1 and n, 6.1, 12.1
Nabokov, Vladimir, 6.1; Pale Fire, 6.2
National Gallery, London, 7.1, 11.1, 13.1
National School Society, 4.1, 9.1
Nelson, Rear-Admiral Horatio, Duke of Bronte
Newby, Thomas: offers to publish Ellis and Acton Bell’s novels, 11.1, 11.2; publication goes ahead, 11.3; bad business practices, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6; advises Emily on second book, 11.7; CB and Anne confront, 11.8
Nicholls, Arthur Bell: curatorship of CB material, 4.1, 14.1, bm1.1, nts.1; arrives in Haworth, 9.1; character and demeanour, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1, 14.2, 14.3; as curate and Sunday School teacher, 10.2, 14.4, 14.5, bm1.2; feelings for CB, 10.3, 13.2, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9; portrait of by CB, 10.4; conducts Emily’s funeral service, 12.1; difficult relations with Patrick Brontë, 12.2, 14.10, 14.11, 14.12, 14.13; caricatured in Shirley, 13.3; proposes to CB, 14.14; plans to emigrate, 14.15, 14.16; in Kirk Smeaton, 14.17, 14.18; difficulty containing his sorrow, 14.19; appearance and manner, 14.20; renewed courtship of CB, 14.21; offered posts by Vicar of Leeds, 14.22; marries CB, 14.23; takes CB on honeymoon to Ireland, 14.24; married happiness, 14.25; devotion to Patrick Brontë, 14.26, bm1.3, bm1.4; gives opinion of “Emma” (CB), 14.27; strictures over CB’s letter-writing, 14.28; offered living by Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 14.29; CB’s pregnancy and death, 14.30, 14.31; against writing of memoir, bm1.5; and Elizabeth Gaskell, bm1.6, bm1.7, bm1.8; return to Banagher, bm1.9; remarries, bm1.10; death, bm1.11
Nightingale, Florence, 11.1, 13.1 and ns, 14.1, nts.1
North American Review (periodical), 12.1
North British Review (periodical), 13.1
North Lees Hall, Derbyshire, 9.1, bm1.1
Noyer, Marie-Josephine, 7.1; death 7.2
Nussey, Ellen: reminiscences of CB and her family, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2; meets CB, 4.3; at Roe Head School, 4.4; and CB’s letters, 4.5, 5.1, 14.1, bm1.1; entertains CB at Rydings, 4.6; visits to Haworth, 4.7, 6.1, 8.1, 12.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4; impressions of Patrick Brontë, 4.8, 8.2; social sensitivities, 4.9, 6.2; feminine inertia, 5.2, 7.1; protective of CB’s memory, 5.3, bm1.2; object of CB’s affection, 5.4; suggests seaside holiday, 6.3; interest in William Weightman, 6.4, 6.5; holiday with CB in Hathersage, 9.1; on family black sheep, 11.1; suspects CB’s authorship of Jane Eyre, 11.2; in Scarborough and Filey with Anne Brontë and CB, 12.2; falls out with CB, 14.5; attends CB’s wedding, bm1.3; images of, 14.6 and n; relations with Arthur Nicholls, 14.7, bm1.4
Nussey, George, 4.1, 6.1, 10.1
Nussey, Reverend Henry: acquaintance with CB, 6.1, 6.2; first curacy, 6.3; proposes to CB, 6.4; as model for St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre, 6.5; marries, 9.1
Oakwell Hall, Birstall, 9.1, bm1.1
Outhwaite family, and n
Outhwaite, Frances, 1.1, 1.2, 12.1
Outhwaite, John, 1.1, 8.1, 10.1
Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, 9.1, 9.2
Peel, Sir Robert, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Pensionnat Heger (school, Brussels), prl.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 11.1
Penzance, Cornwall, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 12.1
pets belonging to the Brontë family, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1; see also “Keeper,” “Flossy”
Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (CB, EJB and AB), 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and n; sales, 10.3, 11.4, 11.5; critical reception, 10.4
Postlethwaite family of Broughton-in-Furness, 6.1, 6.2
Professor, The (CB, first titled “The Master”), prl.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 13.1
Pryce, Reverend David, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1
Quarterly Review, 13.1
“Rachel” (stage name of Eliza Félix), 13.1
railways, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, bm1.1
Rand, Sarah (née Bacon), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens, London
Reid, Sir Thomas Wemyss, 14.1, bm1.1
Revue des deux mondes (periodical), 13.1
Richardson, Samuel, 6.1; Sir Charles Grandison, 6.2
Richmond, George, 8.1, 13.1, nts.1
Rigby, Elizabeth (Lady Eastlake), 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Rivers, St. John (Jane Eyre), 6.1
Roberson, Reverend Hammond, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 11.1, nts.1
Robinson family of Thorp Green, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
Robinson, Edmund, Sr., 9.1, 9.2, 10.1; will, 10.2, 10.3 and n
Robinson, Lydia (later Lady Scott), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1
Rochester, Edward (Jane Eyre), prl.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 11.1, bm1.1
Roe Head School, Mirfield, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
Royal Academy of Art, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1, 13.1
Royal Northern Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts
Rue d’Isabelle, Brussels, 7.1 and n, 7.2
Ruskin, John, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2; Modern Painters, 13.3
Russell’s General Atlas of Modern Geography, 8.1
Rydings, Birstall (Nussey family home)
St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1.1, 4.1
St-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, prl.1, 7.1, 8.1
St. Michael’s Church, Haworth, 2.1, 2.2, 9.1, 12.1; Sunday School built, 4.1
Saint-Pierre, Bernadin de, 7.1, 8.1
Scarborough, East Yorkshire, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
Schiller, Friedrich, 8.1 and n; “Der Taucher,” 8.2
Scott, Lady (first wife of Sir Edward Scott), 11.1, 12.1
Scott, Lady (second wife of Sir Edward Scott) see Lydia Robinson
Scott, Sir Walter, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1; Peveril of the Peak, 9.2; Marmion, 12.1
Sharpe’s London Magazine (periodical), bm1.1
Shirley (CB, first titled “Hollow’s Mill”), prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2; real-life models, 11.3; publication, 13.3; reception, 13.4, 13.5
Shorter, Clement King, bm1.1, bm1.2
Sidgwick family of Stonegappe, 6.1, 6.2 and n, 6.3
Sidgwick, John Benson, 6.1, 6.2 and n
Simeon, Charles, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
Smith family, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1
Smith, Elizabeth, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Smith, George: reads manuscript of The Professor, 11.1; acceptance and publication of Jane Eyre, 11.2, 11.3; meets CB, 11.4; CB’s host in London, 11.5, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3; intimacy with CB, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7; appraisals of CB, 13.8, 13.9; as “Dr. John” in Villette, 13.10, 13.11, 14.1; marries, 14.2, 14.3
Smith, Reverend James, 9.1 and n, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Snowe, Lucy (Villette), prl.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
Sophie, Mademoiselle (teacher, Brussels), 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Southey, Robert, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 9.2; reply to CB’s first letter, 5.3; reply to CB’s second letter, 5.4, 8.1, 13.1
Sowden, Reverend Sutcliffe, 14.1, 14.2; officiates at CB’s wedding, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6; officiates at CB’s funeral, 14.7
Spectator (magazine), 14.1
Spielmann, Marion H., bm1.1, nts.1
SS-Michel-et-Gudule, Cathedral of (Brussels), prl.1, 7.1, 8.1
Stonegappe, Lothersdale, North Yorkshire, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 14.1; Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 14.2 and n
Taylor family of Red House, Gomersal, 4.1, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Taylor family of Stanbury, 2.1, 9.1
Taylor, Amelia (née Ringrose), 14.1, bib.1
Taylor, James, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2; proposes to CB, 13.3; in Bombay, 14.1
Taylor, Joseph, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1 and n, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1
Taylor, Martha: at Roe Head School, 4.1; visits Haworth, 6.1; at school in Brussels, 6.2, 7.1; death and burial, 7.2, 8.1, 13.1
Taylor, Mary: at Roe Head School, 4.1, 4.2; opinions of CB, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, nts.1; personality and characteristics, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 7.1; opinions, 4.8, 4.9, 6.1, 7.2, nts.2; at home, 4.10; visits Haworth, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4; attracted to Branwell Brontë, 6.5; travels in Europe, 6.6, 7.3; on journey to Brussels with CB, 7.4; at school in Koekelberg, 7.5; on Emily Brontë, 7.6; nurses dying sister Martha, 7.7; plans to move to Germany, 7.8; criticises Patrick Brontë, 9.3; emigration to New Zealand, 9.4; defends CB’s right to choose marriage, 14.2; Miss Miles, 6.7, nts.3; essays, 6.8
Taylor, William Henry, 8.1, 11.1
Tennyson, Alfred, prl.1st Baron, 11.1, 11.2
Thackeray, William Makepeace: admired by CB as “social regenerator,” 11.1; responds to CB’s dedication of Jane Eyre second edition, 11.2; keen to meet “Currer Bell,” 11.3; meets CB, 13.1; account of conversation with CB, 13.2; impressions of CB, 13.3; entertains CB to dinner, 13.4; lectures, 13.5; opinion of Villette, 14.1; Vanity Fair, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 13.6; Henry Esmond, 13.7
Thornfield (Jane Eyre), 11.1, nts.1
Thorp Green, North Yorkshire, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Trinity College, Dublin, 9.1, 14.1
Upperwood House, Apperley Bridge, 6.1, 6.2
Villette (CB), prl.1, prl.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2; inception and composition, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2; reception, 14.3, 14.4
Wade, Reverend John, and n
Walker, Sir Emery, 14.1
Wappers, Egide Charles Gustave, Épisode des journées de septembre 1830 sur la place de l’Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles, 7.1
Waterloo, Battle of, 1.1, 7.1; battlefield, 7.2
Weightman, William: arrives in Haworth, 6.1; writes Valentines for Brontë sisters, 6.2; sits for portrait by CB, 6.3, nts.1; “male-flirt,” 6.4; friend to Branwell Brontë, 7.1; illness and death, 7.2; funeral, 7.3; possible model for Weston in Agnes Grey, 10.1
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, prl.1st Duke of, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2
Wheelwright family of Brussels, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Wheelwright, Frances, 7.1, nts.1
Wheelwright, Laetitia, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, nts.1
White family of Upperwood House, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
Williams, William Smith: CB advises about his daughters’ careers, 6.1; reads and praises The Professor, 11.1; first reader of Jane Eyre, 11.2; dealings with CB in role as editor, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1; friendship with CB, 11.5, 14.2; attends dramatisation of Jane Eyre, 11.6; meets CB, 11.7; socialises with CB in London, 11.8; concern for Emily Brontë during illness, 12.2; suggests companion for CB, 13.4; CB compares to “easy down or warm fur,” 13.5; at Mrs. Smith’s ball, 13.6; gives CB his opinion of James Taylor, 14.3; CB snubs in letter, 14.4
Wilson, William Carus, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1; Child’s First Tales, 2.3, 13.1
Winkworth, Catherine, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
Woodhouse Grove School, Apperley Bridge, 1.1, 1.2
Wooler family, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Wooler, Catherine, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1
Wooler, Margaret: as head of Roe Head School, 4.1, 5.1; character, 4.2, 5.2; as role model, 4.3, 6.1; and Emily Brontë, 5.3; disagreement with CB and breach, 6.2; moves school to Heald’s House, 6.3; affection for CB, 6.4; sympathy with CB’s distress, 6.5; asks CB to take over running of Heald’s House School, 6.6; model for Mrs. Pryor in Shirley, 11.1; attends Anne Brontë’s funeral, 12.1; visited by CB in Hornsea, 14.1; gives CB away at wedding, 14.2
Wordsworth, William, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1
Wuthering Heights (film, William Wyler, 1939), 10.1
York and North Midland Railway Company
Zamorna, Duke of (Arthur Augustus Adrian Wellesley, Marquis of Douro, King of Angria), 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 11.1