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CONTENTS.

  1. [Introduction][1]
  2. [CHAPTER I.]
    Parentage[8]
  3. [CHAPTER II.]
    Babyhood[18]
  4. [CHAPTER III.]
    Cowan's Bridge[28]
  5. [CHAPTER IV.]
    Childhood[40]
  6. [CHAPTER V.]
    Going to School[53]
  7. [CHAPTER VI.]
    Girlhood at Haworth[61]
  8. [CHAPTER VII.]
    In the Rue d'Isabelle[77]
  9. [CHAPTER VIII.]
    A Retrospect[92]
  10. [CHAPTER IX.]
    The Recall[103]
  11. [CHAPTER X.]
    The Prospectuses[111]
  12. [CHAPTER XI.]
    Branwell's Fall[116]
  13. [CHAPTER XII.]
    Writing Poetry[128]
  14. [CHAPTER XIII.]
    Troubles[144]
  15. [CHAPTER XIV.]
    Wuthering Heights: its Origin[154]
  16. [CHAPTER XV.]
    Wuthering Heights: the Story[168]
  17. [CHAPTER XVI.]
    'Shirley'[209]
  18. [CHAPTER XVII.]
    Branwell's End[217]
  19. [CHAPTER XVIII.]
    Emily's Death[223]
  20. [Finis!][233]

LIST OF AUTHORITIES.

1846-56. The Works of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
1857. Life of Charlotte Brontë. Mrs. Gaskell. 1st and 2nd Editions.
1877. Charlotte Brontë. T. Wemyss Reid.
1877. Note on Charlotte Brontë. A. C. Swinburne.
1881. Three Great Englishwomen. P. Bayne.
MS. Lecture on Emily Brontë. T. Wemyss Reid.
MS. Notes on Emily and Charlotte Brontë. Miss Ellen Nussey.
MS. Letters of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë.
1879. Reminiscences of the Brontës. Miss E. Nussey.
1870. Unpublished Letters of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Hours at Home.
1846. Emily Brontë's Annotated Copy of her Poems.
1872. Branwell Brontë: in the "Mirror." G. S. Phillips.
1879. Pictures of the Past. F. H. Grundy.
1830. Prospectus of the Clergymen's Daughters' School at Cowan's Bridge.
1850. Preface to Wuthering Heights. Charlotte Brontë.
1850. Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë.
1850. Wuthering Heights: in the "Palladium." Sydney Dobell.
Personal Reminiscences of Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Ratcliffe, Mrs. Brown, and Mr. William Wood, of Haworth.
1811-18. Poems of Patrick Brontë, B.A., Incumbent of Haworth.
1879. Haworth: Past and Present. J. Horsfall Turner.