[12] For Basil Montagu see Dictionary of National Biography.
[13] On the other side of the same page Montagu concluded the narration of his "A Night's Repose," with which I deal later.
[14] Clement Shorter's Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters, p. 164.
[15] See my observations on the name of Lucy Snowe.
[16] The name of "Helen Burns," that saintly sister of Charlotte Brontë, may have been suggested by the St. Helen's Well which Montagu states was near Miss Currer's home, Eshton Hall.
[17] The Brontë Country, by Dr. Erskine Stuart.
[18] A recognizable idiosyncrasy of Charlotte Brontë's genius is the vivid minuteness with which she paints and records apparently unimportant details and happenings connected with her early childhood. (See footnote on page 41.)
[19] See footnote page 47.
[20] Emily Brontë, Miss Mary Robinson; 1883.
[21] Angus Mackay, in The Brontës: Fact and Fiction (1897), identifies Miss Brontë with Caroline Helstone. Charlotte Brontë's mother was a native of Penzance, near Helston.