1st Edition
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 2 The Brontës
The three volumes that comprise this set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary partnerships. These are the Brownings, Brontes and the Rossettis.
1. Charlotte Bronte [Currer Bell] and the Prefaces a) ‘Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell’ b) ‘Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights’ c) Preparatory Note to ‘Selections [of Poems by Ellis Bell]’ 2. Elizabeth Gaskell a) Letters in The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence b) The Life of Charlotte Bronte 3. A. H., Letter of August 1855 4. Ellen Nussey a) ‘Reminiscences of Charlotte Bronte’, Scribner*s Monthly b) [Reminiscences of the last days of Anne Bronte], The Life of Charlotte Bronte 5. Mary Taylor a) Letters to Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, 1st edn b) Letters to Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, 3rd edn 6. Recollections of the Brontes at Home a) George A. Wade, ‘Charlotte Brontë as I Knew Her’, Great Thoughts b) William Scruton, ‘Martha Brown’, Thornton and the Brontes c) William Scruton, Pen and Pencil Pictures of Old Bradford 169 d) C. Holmes Cautley, ‘Old Haworth Folk Who Knew the Brontes’, Cornhill Magazine e) [Benjamin Binns], ‘The Brontes and Bronte Country’, Bradford Observer f) Anon., ‘A "Stroller’s" Interview with Charlotte Brontë’, Thornton and the Brontes 7. Literary Ambitions a) Robert Southey, The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles b) Mrs Oliphant, Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and His Sons, Their Magazine and Friends 8. The Governess a) Arthur Christopher Benson, The Life of Edward White Benson b) Mrs Strickland, [Charlotte and the White Family of Rawdon], Westminster Gazette 9. The Brontes at Brussels a) Letter from Constantine Heger to the Revd Patrick Bronte, 5 November 1842, in The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence b) Theo[dore F.] Wolfe, ‘Scenes of Charlotte Bronté’s Life in Brussels’, Lippincott’s Magazine c) Letter from Mlle de Bassompierre in Thornton and the Brontes d) Joseph J. Green, ‘Miss Wheelwright’, Hastings and St Leonards Observer 10. William Dearden [Oakendale], ‘Who Wrote "Wuthering Heights"?’, Halifax Guardian 11. Francis H. Grundy, Pictures of the Past: Memories of Men I have Met and Places I Have Seen 12. Francis A. Leyland, The Bronte Family, with Special Reference to Patrick Branwell Bronte 13. George Smith, ‘Charlotte Bronte’, Cornhill Magazine 14. Charlotte Bronte in London a) R[ichard] H[enry] Horne, ‘Charlotte Bronte’, in Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning b) Benjamin Lewes Saul [Lewis Melville], William Makepeace Thackeray: A Biography c) William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘The Last Sketch’, Cornhill Magazine d) Anna Isabella Ritchie, ‘My Witches’ Cauldron’, Chapters from Some Memoirs e) Letter from Anne Thackeray Ritchie to Reginald J. Smith, Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie f) Mrs Brookfield, Mrs Brookfield and Her Circle g) Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle to Helen Walsh, Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to her Family 15. Emily and Catherine Winkworth, Memorial of Two Sisters 16. Harriet Martineau a) Autobiography, with Memorials by Marian Weston Chapman b) ‘Death of Currer Bell’, Biographical Sketches, 1852-1875 17. Matthew Arnold a) Letter to Miss Wightman, Letters of Matthew Arnold b) ‘Haworth Churchyard’, Fraser’s Magazine 18. Remembering the Brontes
Biography
Volume Editors: Simon Avery (The Brownings), Marianna Kambani (The Brontes), Hester Jones (The Rossettis), Series Editor Ralph Pite.
