Christine Alexander’s The Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983) remains the definitive account. On the earlier juvenilia and its relations both to early nineteenth-century print culture and to Charlotte Brontë’s later work, see Carol Bock, Charlotte Brontë and the Storyteller’s Audience (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992) and ‘Our Plays: the Brontë juvenilia’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës, ed. Heather Glen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Critical discussion of Charlotte Brontë’s later Angrian fictions may be found in:
Firdous Azim, The Colonial Rise of the Novel (London and New York: Routledge, 1994).
Susan Anne Carlson, ‘Incest and Rage in Charlotte Brontë’s Novelettes’, in Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women’s Writing, ed. Tomoko Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp (New York: State University of New York Press, 1998).
Karen Chase, Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot (New York: Methuen, 1984), pp. 7–24.
Winifred Gérin, ed., Five Novelettes (London: The Folio Press, 1971).
John Kucich, Repression in Victorian Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 51–5.
Bette London, Writing Double: Women’s Literary Partnerships (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1999).
John Maynard, Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 40–71.
Helene Moglen, Charlotte Brontë: the Self Conceived (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1976), pp. 47–59.
Carl Plasa, Charlotte Brontë (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 14–28.
Dianne F. Sadoff, Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot and Brontë on Fatherhood (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), pp. 120–27.
Sally Shuttleworth, Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), ch. 6.