INDEX

Abbotsford 174, 175

Adrienne Lecouvreur 192n.

Agnes Grey see Brontë, Anne

Alexander, Dr Disney 155, 156n.

Alexander, Harriet 155, 156n.

Allbutt, Dr George 41n.

Allbutt, Mrs George, née Anne Maria Brooke, 40, 41n.

Allbutt, Revd Thomas 146n.

Ambleside 154, 170, 171n., 180, 181n.

‘Angria’ (imaginary country) 27n., 42, 43n., 91n.

Anglesey 235n.

Appleby, Westmorland 20n., 31

Arnold, Dr Thomas 170, 171n., 175

Arnold, Mrs Thomas, née Penrose 170, 171n.

Art (CB’s drawings) 103, 104n.

Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh 169n., 174, 175n.

Ashworth, Edward and William 148n.

Athenœum (journal) 72n.

on JE 89, 97n.

on Tenant 115n.

on Shirley 153n.

162, 163n., 174, 175n.

on Thackeray 183n.

Athénée Royal, Brussels 47, 55, 56n.

Atkinson, Henry George 182, 183n., 185, 186n.

Atkinson, Revd Thomas, of Hartshead 146

Atkinson, Mrs Thomas, née Mary Hirst 170, 171n.

Atlas, The (newspaper) 89n., 117

on Shirley 153n.

Aubigné, Jean Henri Merle D’ 197, 198n.

Audubon, John James 5, 6n., 165n.

Austen, Jane 98, 99n., 100, 101, 109n., 158n., 161

Australia 214, 215n.

Aykroyd, Tabitha (Tabby) 144, 145n.

illness 206, 207n.

death 243

Aylott and Jones (publishers) 69, 72, 73

‘Babylon’ (London) 149

Bagshawe, Henry 160n.

Banagher, Ireland 233, 235n., 236

Bangor, North Wales 235n.

Batley 20, 22n., 167, 168n.

Beddgelert, Wales 235, 236n.

Belcombe, Dr H. S. 73, 75n.

Belgians 36

Belgium 48

Bell, Acton 72, 73

and see Brontë, Anne

Bell, Revd Dr Alan 235n.

Bell, ‘the brothers’ 91, 92n.

‘Bell & Co.’ 123, 124n.

Bell, Currer 72, 73, 87n.

identity revealed 144n.

and see Brontë, Charlotte

Bell, Ellis 72, 73

identity revealed 113

poems by 119

and see Brontë, Emily

Bell, Harriet Lucinda, later Mrs J. E. Adamson 234, 235n.

Bell, James Adamson 241, 242n.

Bell, Joseph Samuel 234, 235n.

Bell, Mary Anna, later Nicholls 234, 235n.

Bengal Hurkaru and the India Gazette 160

Bennett, E. T., The Gardens of the Zoological Society 165n.

Bentley, Richard (publisher) 73n., 183n.

Bentley’s Miscellany 73n.

Bewick, Thomas 5, 6n., 104n., 165n.

Bernardin de St. Pierre, Jacques-Henri 42n., 55, 56n.

Bible, The, quotations from 20, 22, 25n., 26, 28n., 57, 58, 59n., 82, 120, 121n., 122, 129, 130, 131n., 153n., 159, 160, 182, 183n., 188, 189n., 193, 194n., 200, 209, 210n., 218, 219n., 244

Bicknell, Elhanan 151n.

Binns, Susey 214n.

Birstall 144n.

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 27n. 121, 122n.

Blakeway, Elizabeth, later Mrs George Smith 227n., 230, 231n.

Blanc, Louis 104n.

Blanche, Mlle 35, 37n., 43, 44n., 66, 68, 69n.

Bland, John 21, 22n.

Bland, Susan 21, 22n.

‘Boanerges’ 21, 22n.

Bombay 188n., 196, 219n.

Booth, Mrs Anne 16, 17n.

Boswell, James 5, 6n.

‘Boultby, Dr’ 18n.

Boynton 16, 17n.

Bradford 156

Bradley, Revd James Chesterton 62n., 133n.

Branwell, Elizabeth 14, 26, 28n., 30, 33, 35n.

death 38, 39n., 81, 140n.

‘Bretton, Mrs’ see Smith, Mrs Elizabeth, née Murray

Brewster, Sir David 191, 193n., 197

Bridlington 14, 15n., 21, 22n., 31, 138–9

Briery Close 171n.

Bridgehouse Mill, Haworth 204–5n.

Britannia, The (newspaper) (on JE) 91, 92n.

‘Brocklehurst, Mr’ (in JE) 97

Bromsgrove, Worcs. 71

BRONTË, ANNE: portraits 104n., 109–10n.

illness 128–30, 133

Christian faith 134–6, 137

death 136–7n.

gravestone 204n., 205

Places visited: Blake Hall 10, 11n., 13, 14n.

London 109–10n.

Roe Head school 8

Scarborough 135–6

Thorp Green 33n., 47

WORKS

Agnes Grey 11n., 33n., 72n., 75, 92, 94, 95, 103, 104n., 113

Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The 109, 113, 115

second edition 118, 119n., 124n., 141, 176, 177n.

Brontë, Branwell 24, 25n.

letter to 41, 42n.

at Thorp Green 47, 55, 56n.

in Haworth 61

his drinking and dismissal 63, 64n.

seeks railway employment 64, 65n.

deterioration 70–1, 74, 75n.

debts 83, 84n.

and Mrs Lydia Robinson 112n.

death 120–2, 129n., 136; 138, 140n., 187, 219n.

BRONTË, CHARLOTTE: life passim

WORKS

Early writings 9–10n., 25–8n., 42–3n., 91n., 167n.

Jane Eyre 80n., 86–98, 101–6, 109n., 116–17, 119n., 122–4n., 156, 175, 179, 189n., 195, 196n.

Poems by ‘C., E., and A. Bell’ 69, 72, 73, 84

Professor, The 72, 75–6, 79, 85–7, 93–4, 284–5n.

Shirley 132–3, 140–4n., 145–8, 153, 156, 158–60, 164–5, 175, 189n.

second edition 201n., 207–8n.

Villette 196n., 205, 206n., 207–11n., 215n., 217–19n.

Brontë, Elizabeth (CB’s sister) xxxv-xxxvi, 87n., 126, 127n., 129n., 138

BRONTË, EMILY 12, 34, 35

in Brussels 36, 43–4, 70, 113

illness, emaciation 126

death 127, 130–8

love of the moors recalled 163

portraits 178.

WORKS

Wuthering Heights 72n., 75, 92

publication 93–5

authorship of 103, 104n., 117

‘brutality’ 124n., 141n.

article on, in The Palladium 174, 175n.

1850 edition 176, 177n., 178n., 180n.

Brontë, Maria (CB’s sister) 87n., 126, 127n., 129n., 138

Brontë, Mrs Maria, née Branwell, 26, 28n., 129n.

Brontë, Revd Patrick 34, 41, 42n., 46

eyesight 55, 56n., 66, 69n.

cataract operation 77–80n.

alleged drinking 81n.

120

illness 128, 130

164, 165n., 183, 190, 197, 203

apoplexy 206–7

reaction to Mr Nicholls’s proposal 212–13

temporary blindness 224

consent to marriage 228

‘excellent understanding’ with Nicholls 237

informs EN that CB is ‘on the verge of the grave’ 245

Brook Hall, near Tadcaster 32

Brook[e], Mrs Thomas 10, 11n., 21, 22n.

Brooke, Leah Sophia 3, 4n.

Brooke, Anna Maria, later Mrs George Allbutt 3, 4n., 40, 41n.

Brookfield, Jane 194n.

Brookfield, William 194n.

Brookroyd, Birstall 8, 168n., 229, 230n.

Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron Brougham and Vaux 170, 171n.

Brown, John 145n., 155, 156, 221, 222n.

Brown, Martha 144, 145, 156, 203, 206, 216, 220

Brown, Mrs John 145n., 155, 156n., 213

Brown, Dr Samuel 175

Browne, Dr J. P., phrenologist 194n.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 120n.

Brussels 32, 81

Brussels (pensionnat in) 34, 93

CB’s letters from 35–46

Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton, later Bulwer Lytton 27, 28n., 101, 103, 116, 117n., 124, 189n., 190, 191n.

Bungay and Bacon 181, 183n.

Bunsen, Chevalier von 170, 171n.

Burlington see Bridlington

Burnley 158n.

‘Burns, Helen’ in JE 88, 89n.

Burns, Robert 5, 6n., 160n.

Burritt, Elihu 146n.

Burton Agnes, Yorks. 12n.

Busfeild, Mrs Sarah 53, 54n.

Busfeild, Revd William 20n., 54n.

Butterfield, Richard Shackleton 204–5n.

Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron 5, 103

Cakeham, Sussex 83, 84n., 193n., 207n.

Calcutta (newspaper) 161

Calvinism 8

Cambridge 34

Campbell, Thomas 3, 20, 22n.

‘The Last Man’ 164, 165n.

Capesthorne Hall 192n.

Carmichael-Smyth, Mrs 181, 183n.

‘Caroline Vernon’ (story by CB) 14n.

Carr, Harriet 3, 4n.

Carr, Charles 3, 4n.

Carr, William (surgeon) 78, 79n.

Carter, Edward Nicholl 13, 14n., 206, 234, 235n., 237

Carter, Ellen 206

Carter family 13, 14n.

Carter, Susan 206

Carter, Susanna, née Wooler 13, 14n., 206, 234, 235n.

Cartman, Revd Dr William 190, 191n., 220, 221n.

Catholicism 36, 38, 43, 44n., 210, 211n.

Cator, Revd Thomas 221n.

‘Celia Amelia’, nickname for Revd W. Weightman, q.v. 17, 18n., 19, 20n.

Cervantes, Don Quixote 211

Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace 165, 167n.

Charnock, Elizabeth, later Mrs Richard Nussey 5, 81n.

Chartism 60n., 186n. cholera 206, 207n.

Chorley, Henry Fothergill 89n., 97n.

Church of England Quarterly Review on Shirley 154

Clapham, Henry 112n., 125

Clapham, Robert, husband of Ann Nussey 145n., 202, 203n., 238, 239n.

death 244

Clapham, Samuel Blakey 125

Cleckheaton 144n.

Clergy Daughters’ School, Cowan Bridge, 87n., 97n., 146, 147n.

Clifton House Asylum, York 135n.

Cockermouth 172n.

Cockill, Elizabeth 53, 54n., 239, 240n.

death 240

Cockill, Hannah, later Battye 53, 54n., 241n.

Cockill, Sarah 53, 54n., 240, 241n.

Colburn, Henry 73n., 75, 76n., 183n.

Coleridge, Hartley, 25, 27n., 50, 52, 53n., 85n.

Collins, Mrs John 13, 14n.

Collins, Revd John 14n., 18, 20n.

Conwy, N. Wales 235n.

Cook, Eliza 120n.

Cooper, James Fenimore 27, 28n., 101n.

Corneille, Pierre 192n.

Cornhill (Smith, Elder’s premises at 65, Cornhill) 110n., 163, 183, 184, 193, 231

couch, self-acting 193, 194n.

Courier, The (newspaper) 97

Cowan Bridge see Clergy Daughters’ School

Crackenthorpe 20n.

Critic, The (journal) 72n., 132, 133n.

Crosby, Dr John 84n.

Crowther, Revd Thomas 96, 97n.

Crystal Palace, London 189n., 190, 191n., 197

curates in Shirley 132, 133, 147n., 153n., 159, 160n.

Curie, Dr Paul Francis 126, 127n.

Daguerre, Louis 169n.

Daily News, The (on Shirley) 146, 147n.

Daniel, Mrs Mackenzie 115n., 117n.

Davenport, Caroline Ann, née Hurt, later Lady Hatherton 191, 192n.

De Quincey, Thomas 84, 85n.

De Renzy, Revd George Binks 223n., 232

‘Devonshire Arms’, Keighley 142, 143n.

Devonshire House, London 189n.

Dewsbury 146

Dewsbury Moor 35n.

dialect 177, 178n.

Dickens, Charles 73n., 85n., 101n., 189n., 199n.

WORKS

Bleak House 200, 201n.

Household Words 201, 202n.

Oliver Twist 73n.

Pickwick Papers 73n.

Disraeli, Benjamin 103n., 171n.

Dissenters 18, 19, 20n., 61

Dixon, Abraham 35n.

Dixon family 39n., 40

Dixon, George 46

Dixon, Joshua 105n.

Dixon, Mary 40, 41n., 45, 46n., 105

Dixon, Mrs Laetitia, née Taylor 35n.

Dobell, Sydney 175n.

‘Donne, Mr’ in Shirley 62n., 133n., 156n., 159, 160n.

Donnington, Sussex 12n.

Doyle, Richard 183n.

Driver, John 144n.

Dublin 233, 235, 236

Dublin, Trinity College 14, 16n., 233, 235n.

Dublin Review, The 158, 160n.

Dublin University Magazine 72n., 91, 92n.

Dubois, Victoire 48

Duncome (?Duncombe) 32, 33n.

Dun-Edin (Edinburgh) 169

Dury, Revd Theodore 14n., 20n.

Eagles, Revd John (‘Aquilius’) 122n.

Earnley, Sussex 12n., 30, 47n.

Easton, Yorks. 16, 17n., 138, 139n.

Economist, The (journal) on JE 140, 141n.

Edgeworth, Maria 109

Edinburgh 167, 169, 174, 175

Edinburgh Review on Shirley 155, 158

Elder, Alexander 85n.

Eliot, George (Marian Evans) 91n.

Elliott, Ebenezer 85n.

‘Emanuel, Paul’ in Villette 209, 210n.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 114, 115n.

Erle, Sir William 108, 109n.

Evans, Ann, later Mrs James Connor 97n.

Ewart, William 146n.

Examiner, The (journal) 113, 115n., 117

on Shirley 147, 148n., 153n., 160n., 203, 222, 223n.

Exeter Hall 145, 146n.

‘Fanchon’ (Fanny Whipp) 16, 17n.

‘Fanshawe, Ginevra’ in Villette 209, 210n.

Fawcett, Revd William 222, 223n.

Ferrand, William Busfeild 170, 171n.

Ferrand, Hon. Fanny Mary 170, 171n.

Fielding, Henry 99

Pamela 133n., 193n.

Jonathan Wild 200, 201n., 218, 219n.

Filby 201

Filey 137–9n., 203–6

Fileys, the Miss 111, 112n.

France 189

Fleurs de la poésie française, Les 42n., 55, 56n.

Flossy (Anne Brontë’s spaniel) 54n., 139, 140n., 164, 165n., 188n., 204, 220, 221n.

Flossy junior 54, 187, 188n.

Fonblanque, Albany (on Shirley) 147, 148n.

Forbes, Dr John 131, 132n., 150n., 161, 162

Forçade, Eugène (on Shirley) 160n.

Forget Me Not (annual) 104n.

Fox How 170, 171n.

‘Fraser, Alexander’ (George Smith) 217, 219n.

Fraser’s Magazine 73n., 90, 91n., 97, 98, 99n.

Friendship’s Offering (annual) 104n.

French newspapers 60, 64

French Revolution (1848) 103, 104n.

Fryston, Yorks. 112n.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 148, 149n., 170, 171n., 172–4, 193, 194n., 201–2, 224, 230n., 231, 232n.

WORKS

Cranford 201, 202,

Life of CB 181n., 232n., 243n.

Mary Barton 148n., 170

Ruth 202

Gaskell family 193, 194n.

Gaskell, Florence 173, 174n.

Gaskell, Julia 173, 174n., 194n.

Gaskell, Margaret Emily (‘Meta’) 173, 174n.

Gaskell, Marianne 173, 174n.

Gawthorpe Hall 155n., 158n., 241, 242n.

German Testament 42, 43n.

Germany 46n., 59n., 63

Glasgow Examiner, The 117n.

Glenelg, Lord 191, 193n.

Goldsmith, Oliver 5, 6n., 201

Gomersal 18n., 144n.

Gondal 27n.

Gorham, James 111, 112n.

Gorham, Revd John 111, 112n.

Gorham, Mary, later Hewitt 61, 62n., 64n., 111, 112n., 192, 193n.

marriage 207n.

pregnancy 239, 240n., 243, 244

Gorleston 221, 222, 223n.

Goussaert, Mme, née Catherine Phelps 32, 33n.

governess, AB’s experience as 33n.

governess, CB’s experience as 9, 12–13, 32–3, 36

governess in JE 101–2

governesses 12, 29, 76, 106–9

Governesses’ Benevolent Institution 107, 109n., 133n.

Grand Canal, Ireland 233, 235n.

Grant, Revd Joseph Brett 44n., 62n., 133n.

‘Mr Donne’ in Shirley 155, 156n., 159, 160n., 214n., 216n., 220, 222

Great Barr Hall 125n.

Great Exhibition 189, 194n.

Green, Annie 174n.

Green, Ellen 174n.

Greenwood, James (1793–1857) 204–5n.

Greenwood, John (1763–1846), manufacturer 14n.

Greenwood, John (1807–63), stationer 159, 160n.

Greenwood, Joseph 156

Grey, Maria Georgina, and Emily Shirreff, Thoughts on Self-Culture 158n.

Gudule, Ste. (church) 43, 44n.

Guild of Literature 188, 189n., 190, 191n.

Habergham 231n., 241, 242n.

Hahnemann, Christian Friedrich 124n.

Halifax 84n., 156, 230n., 233

Hallam, Arthur 173, 174n.

Halle, Friedrich 46n.

‘Hall, Margaret’ in Shirley 143, 144n.

‘Hall, Mr’ in Shirley 143, 144n.

Harden Grange 170

Harper and Brothers, publishers 109n.

Harrogate 113

Hartley, James 214n.

Hartshead-cum-Clifton 146n.

Hathersage 47n., 60, 61, 62n.

Hatherton, Lord 192n.

Haworth lonely, quiet 47

uncivilized 142

Haworth National School 216n., 222, 236

Haworth Parsonage, proposed school at 49, 51, 53, 54n., 64

re-roofing 164, 165n., 166

Heald, Harriet 140, 230n.

Heald, Mrs Mary, née Carr 230n.

Heald, Revd William Margetson 140n., 143, 144n., 230n.

‘Heathcliff’ 117, 175n.

Hebden Bridge 214n.

Heger, Constantin 36, 37n., 38, 39, 42, 47, 48, 53, 54, 55, 56n., 56, 59n., 65, 69n., 81n.

Heger family 40, 40n., 50, 52, 66, 68

Heger, Louise 50, 52

Heger, Mme Zoë 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 45, 47, 48n., 52n., 56n., 59n.

‘Helstone, Revd Matthewson’ in Shirley 143, 144n., 146, 147n., 149, 150n.

Heptonstall 238, 239

Herschel, Sir John 193n.

Hewitt, Mrs Thomas Swinton see Gorham, Mary

Hewitt, Revd Thomas Swinton 62n., 207n.

Hirst, Elizabeth (‘Bessie’) 78

Hoby, Miss 13

Hodgson, Revd William 14, 16n.

Hodgson, Thomas (publisher) 177n.

Hogarth, William 193n., 201n., 219n.

Holyes, the 44

Holyhead 233, 235

Holyrood Palace 175n.

Hook, Revd Walter Farquhar 19, 20n., 231

Horne, Richard Henry (later Hengist) 182, 183n.

Howitt, William 147, 148n.

Huddersfield 7, 8n.

Hudson, John 16, 17n., 60, 138, 139n.

Hudson, Mrs John 16, 17n., 60, 139

Hume, David 5

Hunsworth 60, 147, 148n., 229, 230n.

Hunt, Edmund 158n.

Hunt, Leigh 94, 95n., 96, 158n.

Hunt, Thornton 157, 158n., 163n., 186n., 223n.

Ilkley, Yorks. 65

India 150n., 186–8n., 197, 217, 219n.

Indian newspapers 158, 160n.

Ingham, Dr Amos 242n., 245n.

Ingham family of Blake Hall 11n.

Ireland 34, 233, 235n., 236

Jacks, Clarissa 31n.

Jackson, Miss 31

Jackson, Revd Thomas Norfolk 204

Jane Eyre see Brontë, Charlotte

Jenkins, Revd David 35n.

Jenkins, Revd Evan 34, 37n.

Jenkins, Mrs Evan 34, 37n.

Jessop, William 112n.

Jew-basket 17, 18n., 23, 25n.

John Bull (newspaper) 110, 111n.

Johnson, Dr Samuel 5, 6n., 201

Justine, Mlle 66, 68, 69n.

Kavanagh, Julia 96, 97n.

Madeleine 124, 166, 167n., 176

Women of Christianity 177n.

Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir James 155, 156, 158n., 162, 170, 171n., 176, 180, 185n., 191, 231n., 241–2

Kay-Shuttleworth, Lady 170, 171, 180, 192n.

Keeper (Emily Brontë’s bulldog) 139, 140n.

Keighley 17, 18n., 142, 143n.

Keighley Mechanics’ Institute xiv, 19, 20n.

Kendall, A., Derwent Priory 26, 28n.

Kilkee, Ireland 234, 235, 236

King, Henry Samuel 219n., 226, 227n.

Kirk Smeaton 222n., 233n.

Koekelberg, Château de 39, 167n.

labour, organization of 104

Lady’s Magazine 26, 28n.

Lake District 176

Lamartine, Alphonse de 104

Lamb, Charles 118, 120n., 158n.

Landseer, Edwin 164, 165n.

‘Lavinia’ (Emily Brontë) 12, 13n.

Leader, The (newspaper) 162, 163, 183n., 186, 203, 222, 223n.

Le Cornu, Revd John 47n.

Legouvé, Ernest 192n.

Leith 174

Lewes, George Henry 90, 91, 94, 96, 100–1

on Shirley 155, 158n., 165n., 166

WORKS

Leader, The (journal) 162, 163n., 186, 223n.

Noble Heart, The 158n.

Ranthorpe 98, 99n.

Rose, Blanche and Violet 98, 99n.

Lewis, Sarah, Woman’s Mission 173, 174n.

Leyland, Joseph Bentley 84n.

Liverpool 14, 144n.

Llanberis Pass, Wales 235, 236n.

Lockhart, John Gibson 5, 6n., 85n., 92n.

London 113, 147, 148n., 161, 162n., 164–8, 189n., 194n., 214, 215n.

Longley, Revd Dr Charles Thomas 215, 216n.

Lorimer, James 141n.

Louis Philippe 104

Lowood school in JE 87n., 132

Luddites 144n.

Lutwidge, Margaret Anne 12n.

Lynn, Eliza, later Linton 100, 101, 124, 127

‘Macarthey, Mr’ in Shirley 62n., 133n., 156n.

‘McCrowdie, Girzy’ 195, 196n.

Macready, William Charles 150, 151n.

MacTurk, Dr William 242n.

‘Malone, Peter’ in Shirley 54n., 133n.

Manchester 77–80n., 193–4n., 220, 221n., 229, 230n.

Manners, Lord John 170, 171n.

Marie, Mlle 35, 37n.

Marsh, Anne 89, 90n., 141n.

Martin, John (artist) 164, 165n.

Martineau, Harriet 109, 151, 152n., 154, 170, 171n., 180, 181n., 183n., 217, 219n.

WORKS

Letters on the Laws of Man’s Nature and Development 182, 183n., 185, 186n., 217n.

Oliver Weld 200, 201n.

Martineau, Lucy 152n.

Martineau, Richard 152n.

Maurice, Revd Frederick Denison 197, 198n.

Mechanics’ Institute, Haworth 156

Melrose 174, 175n.

Melville, Revd Henry 197, 198n.

‘Menelaus, Mrs’ (Ellen Nussey) 18, 19n.

Merrall family 156

Methodism 204

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, Les Huguenots 165n.

Miller, Maria (‘Ginevra Fanshawe’) 36, 37n., 210n.

Millevoye, Charles Hubert 64n.

Milner, Mr 111, 112n.

Milnes, Richard Monckton, later Baron Houghton 191, 192n., 231n.

Milton, John 5

Mirror of Literature, The 95n.

Mitchell, Walter 24, 25n.

Moore, George, Grasville Abbey 26, 28n.

‘Moore, John Henry and William’ in CB’s early writings 148n.

‘Moore, Louis’ in Shirley 148n.

Moore, Mrs, relative of Margaret Wooler 71

‘Moore, Robert’ in Shirley 148n.

Moore, Thomas: Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 5, 6n.

Life of Sheridan 5, 6n.

Morgan, Revd William 17, 18n.

on JE 156

‘Mr Boultby’ 156n., 220, 221n.

Morning Advertiser, The 89, 90n.

Morning Chronicle, The 105, 109n.

on Shirley 154

Morning Herald, The 117n.

Mulock, Dinah Maria, later Mrs G. L. Craik 217, 219n.

National Gallery, London 110n., 150, 151n.

National Society School, Haworth 216n.

Nebuchadnezzar’s dream 188, 189n.

Nelson, the Life of 5, 6n.

Newby, Thomas Cautley 72n., 92, 93, 94n., 95, 101n.

his lies 109, 110n.

deviousness 113, 115n., 117, 126, 127n., 176, 177n.

elusive 178, 179, 180n.

New Monthly Magazine 101

New Zealand 59n., 60n., 74, 75n.

Nicholls, Alan 235

Nicholls, Revd Arthur Bell: ‘Puseyite’ 62n., 76, 77, 133n.

‘delighted’ with Shirley 155, 156n.

edits The Professor 185n.

pension or promotion offered 192n., 204

proposes marriage 21113n.

reaction to CB’s refusal 213, 214, 215n., 216

curacy at Kirk Smeaton 220, 221n.

loses self-command, leaves Haworth 221, 222–3n.

engagement 228

loyalty to Mr Brontë 230, 231n., 237, 238

requires EN to burn CB’s letters 238–41n.

‘tenderest nurse’ 243, 244

informs EN of CB’s death 245

Nicholson, Thomas 84n.

North American Review 123, 124n.

North British Review 140, 141n.

Norton, Caroline 120n.

Noyer, Marie Josephine, first wife of Constantin Heger 41n.

Nussey, Ann, later Clapham 3, 4n., 17, 18n., 31, 45, 74, 105, 145n., 202, 203n.

husband dies 244

Nussey, Ellen: friendship with CB 154, and passim

appearance 6

with CB at Easton and Bridlington 14, 15n.

pictured as ‘Mrs O. P. Vincent’ 41n.

with CB in Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington 136–9

registers Anne’s death 137n.

estrangement from CB 224–5n., 229n.

conditional promise to burn CB’s letters 240n.

Nussey, Mrs Ellen, née Wade, EN’s mother 3, 4n., 76, 77

illness 155, 156, 202

Nussey, George, EN’s brother 7, 45, 46n., 59, 60, 62, 63n., 73, 75n., 83, 84n., 148n.

Nussey, Mrs Henry, née Emily Prescott 77n., 78

Nussey, Revd Henry 5, 6n.

proposes to CB, her refusal 11, 12n.

16, 17n., 23, 24, 25n., 33, 47, 60, 61n., 77

Nussey, John, EN’s father 8n.

Nussey, Dr John, EN’s brother 62, 63n.

Nussey, Revd Joshua, EN’s brother 77, 223n.

Nussey, Mrs Joshua, née Elizabeth Anne Alexander 82

Nussey, Mrs Richard, née Elizabeth Charnock 5

Nussey, Richard, EN’s brother 5, 8n., 80, 81n.

Nussey, Sarah Walker 16, 17n., 45, 46n.

Oakwell Hall 54n.

Oakworth 62n.

Oddfellows 84n.

Ogden, Mrs Grace 44n.

‘Omphale’ 188, 189n.

Oundle 77n., 82n., 223n.

Ouseburn, Great 84n.

Outhwaite, Frances 135

Oxenhope 62n., 214n.

Oxford Chronicle, The 97, 98n.

Palladium, The (journal) 174, 175n., 176

Palmerston, Lord 171n.

Palmyra 21

‘Papal Aggression’ 179n., 192n.

Paper Lantern for Puseyites, A 179n.

Parliament, Houses of 152, 165

Pascal, Blaise 55, 56n.

Paxton, Joseph 189n.

Peace Congress 145, 146n.

Pentland hills 174

Penzance 28n.

‘Percy, Alexander’ 25, 27n.

Percy, Edward 148n.

Percy, William 148n.

Phillips, George Searle 95n.

Pocock, Revd George Hume Innes 112n.

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell see Brontë, Charlotte

Pope, Alexander 5

Prescott, Emily, later Nussey 60, 61n., 77n.

Professor, The see Brontë, Charlotte

Protestantism 38, 43

Pryce, Revd David 14, 16n.

‘Pryor, Mrs’ in Shirley 152n.

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore 152n.

Punch 73n., 157, 158n.

Pusey, Dr Edward Bouverie 19, 20n., 27, 77n., 179n.

‘Puseyism’ 77n., 179n.

Pygmalion 26, 28n.

‘Quakerism’ (Society of Friends) 38, 146n.

Queen’s College for Female Education, London 109n.

‘Rachel’, actress 191, 192n., 197

railways 21

‘railway panic’ 70, 71n., 83, 84n., 140n., 142

Rambler, The (journal) 118, 119n.

Ramsgate 118

Rawdon 28, 30n., 31, 33

Rawfolds Mill 144n.

Redman 221, 222n.

religion: CB’s doubts 7

EN’s faith 6, 7

W S. Williams’s views 114

and see Calvinism, Catholicism, Methodism, Protestantism, ‘Puseyism’, ‘Quakerism’

Revue des deux Mondes on Shirley 158, 160n.

Richardson, Samuel 26, 27, 28n.

Richmond, Surrey 192, 237

Richmond, Yorks, 237

Rigby, Elizabeth, later Lady Rigby 92n., 133n., 141, 142n.

Ringrose, Amelia, later Mrs Joseph Taylor 63n., 64, 147, 148n., 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 230n., 237, 238n., 244

Ringrose, Christopher Leake 148n.

Rintoul, Robert Stephen 96, 97n.

Roberson, Revd Hammond 144n.

Robinson, Edmund 33n., 42n., 75n.

Robinson, Revd Edmund 33n., 42n., 61

dismisses Branwell Brontë 63, 64n.

death 74, 75n.

Robinson, Elizabeth Lydia 33n., 75n., 83, 84n., in, 112n., 125n.

Robinson, Lydia Mary 33n., 75n.

Robinson, Mrs Lydia, later Lady Scott 33n., 75n., 111, 112n., 125

‘Rochester, Mr’ in JE 89, 90n., 116

Roe Head school 71n.

Rogers, Samuel 191, 193n.

Rollin, Charles 5, 6n.

Rooker, Revd James Yates 61, 62

Rooker, Miss 64n.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, Il Barbiere di Siviglia 165n.

Rouse Mill 71

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 27

Roxby, Henry 75n.

Royal Academy exhibition 110, 111n., 164, 165n.

Ruddock, William (surgeon) 207n.

Ruskin, John

WORKS

King of the Golden River, The 182, 183n.

Modern Painters 112, 113, 115n.

Stones of Venice, The 182, 183n., 188

Rydings, Birstall 5

‘St Pierre, Zélie’ in Villette 37n.

Sand, George 99, 100

Scarborough 135–8, 204, 205

Scotland (CB’s visits to) 167–9, 174, 175n., 176

Scotsman, The (newspaper) 95, 96n.

Scott, Alexander John, Suggestions on Female Education 158n.

Scott, Lady Catherine Juliana 125n.

Scott, Sir Edward Dolman 125n.

Scott, Sir Walter 5, 99, 118, 169, 175n.

Scribe, Eugène 192n.

Shakespeare, William 5

WORKS

Hamlet 21, 22n., 224

I Henry VI 79, 80n.

Macbeth 150, 151n.

Othello 150, 151n., 209, 210n.

Sharpe’s London Journal: ‘Sharpe’s Magazine’ on Shirley 164, 165n.

Sheffield 61, 62n.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 27, 28n.

Sherwood, Emma 202, 203n.

Sherwood, Revd William 202, 203n.

Shirley see Brontë, Charlotte

Shuttleworth, Lady see Kay-Shuttleworth

Sidgwick, John Benson 13

Sidgwick, Sarah Hannah 12, 13n.

‘Sedgwick’ 42

Simeon, Revd Charles 105

Skipton, Yorks. 191n.

Sladen, Isabelle ‘Isabella’ 3, 4n.

Smith, Alexander, son of Mrs Elizabeth Smith 167, 168n.

Smith, Elder & Co. 72n., 85, 149, 150n., 186, 187n.

Smith, Eliza, daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Smith 110n., 150n., 168n.

Smith, Mrs Elizabeth, née Murray: CB meets 110n.

149, 150n., 153, 158n., 164–5n.

‘Mrs Bretton’ in Villette 166–8

CB’s letter to 226

letter to CB from 227n.

Smith, George (1789–1846) 85

Smith, George (1824–1901) 85, 86n., 94

meets CB 109–10n., 118, 131, 132, 145, 149, 150n., 153, 157–8, 165, 167, 176, 178–9, 181–3, 188–9

‘loaded with work’ 192, 193–4, 194–6, 200–1

‘John Graham Bretton’ in Villette 209n.

reaction to Villette 215n.

overwork 217, 219n., 225

meets Elizabeth Blakeway 226n.

engagement and marriage 227

Smith, Isabella, daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Smith 150n.

Smith, Revd James William 44n.

‘Lothario Lovelace Smith’ 53, 54n., 61, 62n.

‘Peter Augustus Malone’ 81n., 133n.

Smith, Revd John 216n.

Smith, Sarah, daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Smith 150n.

Smollett, Tobias 193n., 201n.

Smythe, George Augustus, later Lord Strangford 170, 171n.

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) 215n., 216n.

Sophie, Mlle 35, 37n., 66, 68, 69n.

Southey, Revd Charles Cuthbert 158n., 162n., 171, 172

Southey, Robert 5, 6n., 9–10, 50, 52, 53n., 158n., 161, 162n., 172

Sowden, Revd George 238, 239n., 241

Sowden, Revd Sutcliffe 214n., 220, 221n., 238, 241, 245n.

Spanish Ambassador’s Chapel, London 192n.

Spectator, The on JE 91, 92n., 95n., 96, 97n.

on Tenant 113, 115n.

on Shirley 153n.

Speeton 204n.

St. Clair, Harriet Elizabeth 217, 219n.

Standard of Freedom (journal) on Shirley 147, 148n.

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, Life . . . of Thomas Arnold 175

Stanley, Edward George, Earl of Derby 171n.

Steele, Richard 191n., 201

Sterne, Laurence 201

Stewart, Patrick, of Smith, Elder & Co. 187n.

Stirling, Mrs, née Hunter 141n.

Stonegappe, Lothersdale 12, 13n.

Stott, Colonel George, later Scott-Stanhope 53, 54n.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 208

Sugden family 125

Sun, The (newspaper) on JE 91, 92n.

Swarcliffe House 13, 14n.

‘Sweeting, Mr’ in Shirley 62n., 133n.

Swift, Jonathan 218, 219n.

Sykes, Mrs 60

Tablet, The (newspaper) 89, 90n.

Tadcaster 32

Tadmor 21

Taylor, Amelia Ringrose see Ringrose, Amelia

Taylor, Betty, ?later Marriner 156

Taylor, Ellen 60, 61n., 74, 75n.

death 202, 203n.

Taylor, Emily Martha (‘Tim’), daughter of Amelia Taylor 237, 238n.

Taylor family of Gomersal 144n.

Taylor, George, of Stanbury 156

Taylor, James 174, 185, 196

Taylor, J. Sydney 173, 175

Taylor, Joseph (‘Joe’) 40, 47, 54–6n., 59n., 64–5, 74, 75n., 79, 147, 148n., 150n., 152

Taylor, Joshua 18n., 28n.

Taylor, Mrs Joshua, née Anne Tickell 18n., 111, 112n.

Taylor, Martha 4, 5, 15, 17, 18n., 32, 33n.

death 34, 39, 166, 167n.

Taylor, Mary 4, 17, 18n., 24, 25n., 32, 33n., 39, 40, 41n., 45, 46n., 47, 54, 55, 56

goes to New Zealand 59, 60n., 61n., 74, 75n., 79, 80n., 134, 135n., 155

letters received from 126, 202–3

Taylor, Waring 75n., 80n., 135n.

Taylor, William 75n.

Teale, Dr Thomas Pridgin (1800–67) 128n., 129, 131–2n.

‘Temple, Miss’ in JE 97

Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The see Brontë, Anne

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 85n.; ‘In Memoriam’ 173, 174n.

Thackeray, Anne Isabella, later Lady Ritchie 167n., 183n.

Thackeray, Harriet Marian 183n.

Thackeray, Mrs Isabella, née Shawe 89n., 101–2, 133n., 183n.

Thackeray, William Makepeace 73n., 88, 89, 92n., 101–2, 103, 104n., 110n., 116, 117n., 132, 133n., 145, 146n.

CB meets 150, 151, 153, 160, 165–6

party at his house 166, 167n., 181, 183n., 201

WORKS

Henry Esmond 193, 194n., 198, 199n., 200, 201n., 208, 209, 210n.

Kickleburys on the Rhine, The 178, 179n.

Lectures on the English Humourists 188, 189, 190, 191n., 197, 200, 201n., 218, 219n.

May-day Ode 188, 189n., 201

Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo 196, 198n.

‘Paris Sketches’ (The Paris Sketch-Book) 200, 201n.

Pendennis 127, 157, 158n., 182, 183n.

Vanity Fair 95, 96n., 116, 117n., 127, 133n.

Thackeray, Richmond 183n.

Thomson, James (poet, 1700–48) 5, 13n., 224n.

‘Thornton, old’ (character in early writings) 27, 28n.

Thorp Green 42n., 125n.

‘Titmarsh, Michael Angelo’ (Thackeray) 178, 179n.

Times, The, attack on Shirley 152, 153n., 159, 160n.

attack on The Kickleburys 179n.

Toulmin, Camilla 120n.

Towneley family 157n.

Towneley Hall 157n.

Tranby, near Hessle, Hull 148n., 233n.

Trollope, Anthony 92n.

Trollope, Frances 102, 103n.

Trotman, Martha 37n.

Trulock (‘Truelove’), Miss 181, 183n.

Turner, Joseph Mallord William 112–13, 115n., 150, 151n.

Unitarians 193, 194n.

Universal History 5, 6n.

Upjohn, Mrs Francis, née Sarah Gorham 211, 212–13n., 215, 219–21, 222

Upjohn, Revd Francis 212–13n., 215, 219 -21n.

Upperwood House 28, 30n., 33

‘Vashti’ in Villette 192n.

Verity, Revd Edward Arundel 241, 242n.

Victoria, Queen 174, 175n., 190, 191n.

Villette see Brontë, Charlotte

Vincent, Revd Osman Parke 22, 23, 25n., 29, 30n., 41n.

Wakefield 155

Wales 232, 235

Walker, Amelia 210n.

Walker, Mary 40, 41n.

Walton, Agnes 19, 20n., 21, 31

Warren, Robert 27, 28n.

Warren, Samuel 27, 28n., 101n.

Waterloo, Battle of 164, 165n.

Waverley novels see Scott, Sir Walter

Weekly Chronicle, The 89, 90n.

Weekly Despatch, The 59, 60n.

Weightman, Revd William 17, 18n., 19, 20n., 21, 24, 29, 30n., 31

death 39, 44n., 54, 140n.

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 164, 165n., 167n.

Wellington, New Zealand 60n., 80n.

earthquake 134, 135n.

‘West, Arthur Ripley’ 25, 27n.

Westminster Review, The: on JE 97

on Shirley 154, 173–4n.

Westminster, Richard Grosvenor, Marquess of 191, 192n.

Westmoreland 169

Wheelwright family 45, 46n.

Wheelwright, Laetitia Elizabeth 46n., 175n., 242–3

Wheelwright, Dr Thomas 45, 46n., 149, 150n., 243n.

Wheelwright, Mrs Thomas, née Elizabeth Ridge 48, 50, 52

Whipple, Edwin Percy 124n.

White, Gilbert, ‘of Selborne’ 5, 6n.

White, Jasper Leavens 29, 30n.

White, John 28, 30n., 32, 33, 53

White, Mrs John, née Jane Robson 29, 32, 33, 53

White, Sarah Louisa 29, 30n., 53, 54n.

‘Will o’ the Wisp’ 178, 179n.

Williams, Anne Catherine (‘Anna’) 110n., 138, 139n.

Williams family 110n., 167n.

Williams, Fanny Emily 109n., 110n., 167n.

Williams, William Smith 85n., 86n., 114, 123

condolence on Emily Brontë’s death 128, 129n.; 166, 210

Williams, Mrs W. S., née Margaret Eliza Hills 106, 109, 115, 154, 166

Wilson, John (‘Christopher North’) 25, 27n.

Wilson, Revd William Carus 87n., 97n.

Wilson, William James (oculist) 77–9

Windermere, Lake 171n.

Windus, Benjamin Godfrey 151n.

Winkworth, Catherine 149n.

Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen 179n., 191, 192n.

Wolfe, Charles 5, 6n.

Woman’s Mission see Lewis, Sarah

women, condition of 108–9

Wooler, Eliza 35n.

Wooler, Katherine Harriet (‘Catherine’) 35, 37n., 235, 236n.

Wooler, Margaret 21, 33, 35n., 63, 70–1, 133–4, 135, 137n., 203, 205–6n., 229n., 233

Wooler, Sidney Maria, née Allbutt 3, 4n.

Wooler, Susanna see Carter, Susanna

Wooler, Dr William Moore 205, 206n.

Wordsworth, William 3, 26, 28n., 85n., 173–4n.

Wuthering Heights see Brontë, Emily

York 47, 75n., 135

‘Yorke family’ in Shirley 146, 147n.

‘Yorke, Mrs’ 112n.

Young England movement 171n.

‘Zamorna’ in CB’s early writings 14n.

Zoological Gardens, London 164, 165n.