GENERAL INDEX.
Aire, or Ayre, Malham, source of the, [23], [60-1], [71]
Armytage, Bart., Sir Geo. J., [160]
Aykroyd, Tabby. See Brontë servants
Branwell, Maria, of Penzance, marries Patrick Brontë, [75];
death of, [14], [159-161]
—— Aunt (Elizabeth), and the Hégers, [113-4];
Branwell Brontë her favourite, [37], [78-9];
in mourning for, [72-3]
—— Cousin Eliza, [68], [80]
Brontë, Annie or Anne (Acton Bell), as understudy to Charlotte, [17], [169];
Gondal Chronicles, [17];
Agnes Grey and Wildfell Hall, [17], [161];
appearance and life, [70-4], [77-8], [81-2];
Poems, [156-8];
death of, [161-5]
—— Charlotte, birthplace, [14];
birthday, [14], [106];
appearance, [118], [131], [165], [168].
Childhood:
a rainy day, [18], [37-42], [78];
curtain incident, [38];
Branwell as "tyrant" makes her head ache, [18], [37-42];
"volume-hurling," [38-9], [78];
Methodist literature, [40-2];
writings and Mrs. Gaskell, [14];
Tabby, [38], [40-1], [43-51], [168]
—her homily, [40]
—old songs and fairy tales (Charlotte's love of Scottish ballads), [47], [149], [150];
the locked chamber, [48-51];
passionateness, [45-6], [48-51], [116].
Elfish imagination, [23];
schools, [14], [16], [18], [21-2], [81], [104], [106-117]
—Clergy Daughters' School, [18], [21-2], [81], [106-117],
Roe Head, [14], [16], [83],
Héger pension, [16], [18], [72], [104];
drawings, [82];
her life from childhood to womanhood, [93-103];
no psychical reciprocity with friends, [14];
Wordsworth and her facility in writing novels, [17], [169];
at Brussels (the Hégers),
teacher and pupil, [viii.-x.], [63], [82], [120-2], [131], [138],
dejection at, [120-1], [124];
M. Héger, [viii.-xi.], [14-17], [93], [96-107], [111-2], [120-154], [162-8],
and her literary secrets, [104], [162];
Madame Héger, [16], [104-7], [111-2], [117-9], [122-7], [133],
forbids corresponding, [16];
Charlotte as Mdlle., [105],
as M. Sue's Mdlle. Lagrange and Miss Mary, [ix.], [82], [103-132], [163];
Imitation of Christ, [ix.], [121-2];
her priest, [77], [132-8];
departure from Brussels, [16], [127];
flight from temptation, [105], [141-2], [122-9], [151-2];
the fiery ordeal, [154];
parting with the Hégers, [122-132];
origin of her works, [vii.], [15], [20-36], [138];
Montagu, see Key Index for Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre;
Alembert, [64-5];
Currer Bell, [17], [21-2];
perpetuates drama of her life, [vii.], [15], [16], [154];
Branwell, [18],
and his aunt, [79];
at Haworth Parsonage, [69-82];
school project given up, [16], [169].
Poems publishing, [17]:
"Apostasy" and "Regret," [96-7], [133-7];
"Frances," [132], [134], [144], [150-1];
"Gilbert," [139], [143-4];
"The Letter," [105];
"Mementos," [150];
"Apostasy," [133-7];
"Preference," [132];
"Passion," [157].
Her hypochondria, [16], [87-8];
"Puir Mary Lee," [45], [149], [150];
the storm, [16], [17], [130-154], [157-8];
vindictiveness against M. Héger, [16], [17], [143-6], [152];
Ghoul and Satyr notion, [140-6];
Héger and her heroes (see also the Taylors, [83-9]), [83-92];
heaven undesired by lover, [97], [133-4], [139];
elective affinities, cloven tree, and "twin-soul," [96-7], [147-8];
supernatural "way" to "twin-soul" lover (and the haunted wind), [55-6], [136-7], [140], [147-8];
eerie signal against lattice, [28-30], [53-6], [147-8];
dual portraiture, [69], [70], [77], [83-9], [120], [159], [160], [161];
ice-cold wailing child apparition, [28-30], [52-6], [151];
her two dreams preface to "bedside apparition," [28-30];
name selection method, [22], [68];
chronological sequences in her works, [161];
character of her correspondence, [14], [15];
Héger portrait of, in National Portrait Gallery, [xi.], [162-8];
Richmond Portrait in N.P.G., [168];
Wuthering Heights complications (conspires to accredit and sustain Emily as author), [17], [146], [169];
her fear of Mr. Newby, [19], [153], [169];
limitations of Mrs. Gaskell's Life, [15]
—disappointment of, [104];
last survivor of the young Brontës, [19], [161];
Introduction to her sisters' poems, [156-7];
Miss Austen, [15];
Rev. A. B. Nicholls, marriage with, [19], [96-7], [161]
—Catherine Winkworth on, [96];
Wildfell Hall, [17], [161];
at Thackeray's and the Smiths', [xi.], [166-8];
dedicates Jane Eyre to Thackeray, [xi.];
Greenwood Dyson and, [164].
Last days:
father and daughter, [161];
her resting-place, [19];
her Message and high rank of her genius, [16], [155].
Also see the Key Index to her works
—— Elizabeth, [18], [71-2], [106-7]
—— Emily (Ellis Bell), as understudy to Charlotte, [17], [169];
conspires with her to sustain rôle of author of Wuthering Heights, [17], [138], [146], [169];
no internal evidence of her in Wuthering Heights, [viii.];
her life contrasted with Charlotte's, [17], [18], [156-7];
relations with Branwell, [18], [39], [40], [139];
appearance and life, [17], [72-4], [78], [81-2], [156-7];
Poems, "Old Stoic," "Last Lines," [157];
her literary limitations, [17], [156-7];
death of, [161-5].
See Key Index of Shirley
—— Maria (Helen Burns), [18], [41], [71].
See Key Index; also M. Sue
—— Patrick Branwell, appearance, [79];
artist, [18], [165-6];
his verse, [158];
enjoys the hearth, [37-8];
a sign of trouble for, [52-3];
evil days, [39], [78-9], [158];
and Aunt Branwell, [78-9];
and M. Sue, [106], [110].
As Hindley and John Reed, [x.], [18], [37-8], [52-3], [69], [78-9], [139].
See also Key Index for Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and The Professor
—— Rev. Patrick, parents, Hugh Brunty and Alice M'Clory, [13];
at Ballynaskeagh and Drumballyroney, [13];
at Cambridge, [13], [74-5];
Wethersfield, [75], and Mary Burder;
Dewsbury, [75];
Vicar of Hartshead, [160];
marries Maria Branwell, [18], [75], [159-161];
Vicar of Thornton, [14];
of Haworth, [13];
appearance and life, [13], [70-7], [82], [147], [159-161], [167-8];
verse, [13], [158];
and Mrs. Gaskell's Life, [15].
Also see Key Index
—— Poems, [156-8];
Aylott and Jones, [17], [105], [160]
—— servants:
Aykroyd Tabitha, [x.];
as Nelly Dean and Bessie, [43-53], [168];
does not understand Charlotte Brontë, [43], [45-6];
and old songs, [45-7];
also, [72], [77-8], [147-8], [160], [168];
her homily, [40];
her gift of narrative and fairy tales, [44-5];
death of, [19], [96-7].
Also see Key Index for Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Shirley.
Brown, Martha, [47], [96], [161];
Brown, Tabitha (Mrs. Ratcliffe), and Charlotte Brontë's married life, [96];
Garrs, Nancy, and sister, [47], [159]
Brookfield, Mrs., [167-8]
Carlisle, William, [167]
Carus-Wilson, Rev. Mr., [115]
Casterton Hall, [23];
Clergy Daughters' School, [18], [81], [106], [108-111], [114-117]
Cornwall, Barry, [34]
Courtney, William Leonard, [xi.], [104]
Cust, Lionel, [162]
Devonshire, Duke of, [20]
Dewsbury, [14], [83], [160];
Hartshead, [81], [160]
Dobell, Sydney, [153-4], [169]
Dyson, Greenwood, and Charlotte Brontë, [164]
Elf, of Craven, The, [60], [141-2]
Evans, Miss (Miss Temple), [110], [114]
Fairy Cave, The, and Fairy Janet: see Malham
Gaskell, Mrs., and M. Héger, [15], [96], [104];
Madame Héger, [163];
West Indian girl mystery, [108]
—— Misses, [165]
Hathersage, [70-1], [77]
Haworth, [68], [70], [138], [164];
Church, [13], [19], [164];
Parsonage, [69], [72-82], [159], [161], [164]
Héger, M., as Charlotte Brontë's pupil, [viii.-x.], [120], [122];
original of her chief heroes, [14], [16-17], [83-6], [89-93], [96-7], etc.;
not secretive, [111], [162];
and Roman Catholic Church, [16], [132], [138];
a great and religious personality, [121], [124], [126-9], [132-3], [137-8], [154], [166];
Charlotte Brontë's harsh portrayals of, [143-6];
facial metamorphoses, [85];
the bitterness of his life, [128-9], [130-2];
"Paul," [162-6];
as M. de Morville, [82], [104-6], [120-9], [132], [163].
See Key Index for M. Héger
—— Madame, [16];
her jealousy, [104], [112], [117-8], [122-3], [121-2];
appearance of, [106];
as Madame de Morville, [106-133].
See Key Index for Madame Héger
Hawke, E. G., [163]
Hodge, Harold, [xi.], [153]
Holloway, Laura C., [77]
Holmes, Professor Charles J., [165]
Holroyd, Kt., Sir Charles, [vii.]
Kendal, [106];
Kendall Institution, [114-7]
Kirkby Malham Church, [64], [66-8]
Lagrange's Manuscript "Catherine Bell," [104-119]
Lambert family, [64]
Lucan's "Pharsalia," [14]
Lytton, Lord, [163]
M'Clory, Alice, [13]
Malham, original of Gimmerton of Wuthering Heights:
home of Catherine Earnshaw, and of Janet Aire of Jane Eyre, [22-3], [57-68], [71];
source of the Aire or Ayre, [71].
See Key Index of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre for Malham in Montagu
Malham, or Malam, origin of family, [67]
Malham and Kalderworth, [67]
Malhamdale, enchanted land, [60], [71]
Montagu or Mountagu, Admiral, and Charles II., [20], [64];
De Ruyter, [20]
Montagu, Basil, [20-1]
Montagu, Frederic, his Gleanings in Craven provides the Malham background, and the plots of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, and Charlotte Brontë's nom de guerre, Currer Bell, [20-36], [57-68], [141-2], [145].
See Montagu in the Key Index for those works
Montagu, John, fourth Earl of Sandwich, [20]
Morville de, M., Alphonsine, and Gérard, see M. Héger;
Madame, see Madame Héger
National Portrait Gallery, and Héger Portrait of Charlotte Brontë, [xi.], [162-8];
Thomas Baylis, [163];
and Richmond portrait, [168]
Newby, Thomas, [19], [153], [169]
Nicholls, Rev. A. B., see Charlotte Brontë; also Key Index for Villette
Nussey, Ellen or Nelly, [14], [45], [71], [77], [160], [168];
Rev. Henry, [77]
Procter, Mrs., and Miss Perry, [167]
Rigby, Miss (Lady Eastlake), [138-9], [153], [169]
Ripon, K.G., Marquis of, [xii.]
Ritchie, Lady, [xi.], [165-8]
Shorter, Clement K., [viii.], [22], [77], [83], [147], [162], [164]
Smith, George, [xi.], [86], [160-1], [166-8];
Mrs. Smith, [166-7]. See Key Index for Villette;
Reginald John, K.C., [162];
Smith Elder & Co., [161-2], [168]
Sue, Eugène, [ix.], [16], [103-129].
See Key Index to the Brontë works.
Taylor family of Hunsworth, [83-9] (see Key Index);
Mary and Martha, [83-4]
Thackeray, W. M., [xi.], [34], [167-8].
See Key Index, Villette
Welch, Catherine Galbraith, [xi.]
West Indian Girl, mystery of, [106-8], [112]
Winkworth, Catherine, [96]
Wise, Thomas J., [64]
Wooler, Margaret, [18], [160]
Yates, W. W., [75]
WORKS.
Key to the Brontë Works, John Malham-Dembleby:—
Its place and importance, [vii.-xii.], [15], [17-19], [25], [58], [64], [80-2], [104], [108], [146], [154].
Importance of its Key Index, [169-171]
Life of Charlotte Brontë, Mrs. Gaskell, [15], [22], [43-4], [52], [72], [83], [118], [123], [149], [161], [168];
cause of its sombreness, [82];
disappointment, and limitations, of, [15], [104];
and Branwell Brontë, [121].
Haworth Edition, [14], [17], [85], [121]
Life of Charlotte Brontë, Augustine Birrell, [75]
Brontës: Life and Letters, Clement K. Shorter, [14], [73], [80], [87]
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, Clement K. Shorter, [17], [135]
Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters, Clement K. Shorter, [viii.], [22], [77], [147], [159], [164]
Brontë Country, Dr. Erskine Stuart, [35]
Life of Emily Brontë, Miss Mary Robinson, [39];
character of work, [57]
Brontë Family, Francis Leyland, [39-40], [158]
Brontës, Fact and Fiction, Rev. Angus Mackay, [13], [41], [132], [144]
Brontë Homeland, J. Ramsden, [13]
Brontës in Ireland, Dr. William Wright, [13]
Charlotte Brontë: Monograph, Sir T. Wemyss Reid, [14]
Father of the Brontës, W. W. Yates, [75]
Rev. Patrick Brontë's Collected Works, Horsfall Turner, [13], [158]
Thornton and the Brontës, William Scruton, [161]
Chapters from Some Memories, Lady Ritchie, [167]
Craven Highlands, Harry Speight, [60]
Dictionary of National Biography, Leslie Stephen, [21], [159]
English Dialect Dictionary, Dr. Joseph Wright, [68], [149]
Gleanings in Craven, Frederic Montagu, [20-36], [57-68], [141-2], [145];
Leeds and Skipton, [20];
dedicated to Duke of Devonshire, printed by A. Pickard, published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., [20].
Also see under Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, for Malham and Montagu, and Key Index to those works
Kalderworth, or Lawyer Vavasor's Secret, John Malham-Dembleby,
Malham background of, [67];
when written, and origin of title, [67];
published by Joseph Cooke, Sir Edward Russell, Kt., and A. G. Jeans, [67]
Memorials of Two Sisters: Susanna and Catherine Winkworth, [96]
Miss Mary ou L'Institutrice, Eugène Sue, [82], [84], [105-6], [120], [126-7], [130], [163].
See Key Index for M. Sue
Mrs. Brookfield and Her Circle, [167]
Sydney Dobell's Life and Letters, [153-4]
Woman's Work in English Fiction, Clara H. Whitmore, A.M., [viii.]
Magazines, Etc.
Academy, [169]
Cornhill Magazine, [162]
Dundee Advertiser, [xi.]
Fortnightly Review, [xi.], [39], [70], [104], [125], [162-3]
Liverpool Post, [67]
London and Paris Courier, G. W. MacArthur Reynolds and M. Sue, [105]
London Journal; Weekly Times, [105]
New York Times Saturday Review, [xi.]
Outlook, [xi.]
Palladium, [153-4], [169]
Quarterly Review, [138-9], [153], [169]
Saturday Review, [xi.], [xii.], [20], [68], [153]
Sheffield Independent, [67]
Spectator, [xi.], [125]
Times, [162], [164]
Tribune, [162-5]