| Barker | Juliet Barker, The Brontës (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994) |
| BPM | Brontë Parsonage Museum |
| BST | Brontë Society Transactions |
| CBL | Margaret Smith (ed.), The Letters of Charlotte Brontë (3 vols.; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995–2004) |
| CBP | The Poems of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Victor A. Neufeldt (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985) |
| DVT | Francis Grose, A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London: C. Chappel, 1811) |
| EEW | Christine Alexander (ed.), An Edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, vol. 1, 1987; vol. 2, parts i and ii, 1991) |
| Five Novelettes | Charlotte Brontë, Five Novelettes: Passing Events, Julia, Mina Laury, Henry Hastings, Caroline Vernon, ed. Winifred Gérin (London: The Folio Press, 1971) |
| Four Years Ago | Unpublished ms., dated 21 July 1837, whereabouts unknown, transcribed by C. W. Hatfield; Hatfield Transcription 10, BPM. Page references are to this typescript. |
| Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Elisabeth Jay (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997) |
| Juvenilia | Juliet Barker (ed.), Charlotte Brontë: Juvenilia 1829–1835 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996) |
| Neufeldt | Victor A. Neufeldt (ed.), The Works of Patrick Branwell Brontë, 3 vols. (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1999) |
| PPBB | Victor A. Neufeldt (ed.), The Poems of Patrick Branwell Brontë (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1990) |
| OED | Oxford English Dictionary: www.oed.com |
| SHCBM | Thomas J. Wise and John A. Symington (eds.), The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë, 2 vols. (Shakespeare Head edn., 1936 and 1938) |