The Three Brontës

by May Sinclair

Mackay, Mr. Angus, 81.
Maeterlinck, M., on Emily
Brontë, 14, 170, 213.
Malham-Dembleby, Mr. J., 87,
232, 239-245.
Marriage of Charlotte Brontë,
47-49.
— Charlotte Brontë on, 69-80,
141, 142.
Meredith, George, 133, 224.
Moore, Louis, 134, 141, 143.
— Robert, 137, 140.
Motherhood, 65-68.
Mysticism, 16, 168, 169, 173-181,
186.

Nature in Shirley, 136, 137.
— in Wuthering Heights, 173.
— in Emily Brontë's Poems,
207, 208.
Nicholls, Rev. Arthur Bell,
47-49, 82.
Nicoll, Sir William Robertson,
14, 182, 189, 190.
Note on Charlotte Brontë, by
Algernon Charles Swinburne,
14, 64.
Novel, the, 163.
Novels of Charlotte Brontë,
105-165.
— of Anne Brontë, 39, 49-54.
— of Emily Brontë, 39, 209-234.
Nussey, Miss Ellen, 26, 46, 58,
72, 73, 75-78, 84, 168, 169.
— — Charlotte Brontë's
friendship with, 91-99.
— — Charlotte Brontë's
letters to, 31, 46, 72, 75-78,
86, 91-99.
— — Charlotte Brontë's
advice to, 75-78, 84.
— — influence of, 91-93.
— Rev. Henry, 79, 80.
— — original of St. John
Rivers, 91, 141, 145.

Oliphant, Mrs., on Charlotte
Brontë, 31, 32, 33, 69-74, 79,
80, 117, 141.
— — on Shirley, 70, 71,
72, 141, 142.

Paganism, Emily Brontë's, 16,
135, 136, 174, 186, 208, 214.
— in Wuthering Heights, 209,
211, 214, 222.
Pantheism, Emily Brontë's, 171,
184.
Parmenides, Poem on Nature,
185.
Passion, Charlotte Brontë's treatment
of, 106, 116, 123, 124,
176.
— Emily Brontë's treatment
of, 172, 213, 214.
— Dickens' Treatment of,
123.
— Fielding's treatment of,
123.
— Jane Austen's treatment
of, 124.
— Smollett's treatment of,
123.
— Thackeray's treatment of,
123.
— in Jane Eyre, 113, 114, 115,
116, 117.
— in Shirley, 131, 141.
— in Villette, 159.
— in Wuthering Heights, 210,
211, 212, 213, 218, 221, 222,
224, 228, 231.
— in Emily Brontë's Poems,
179, 180, 182, 196, 199, 200,
205, 208.
— in Emily Brontë's soul,
170-172, 174, 209.
— test in reality, 159.
"Philosopher, The", 177.
Philosophy, Emily Brontë's, 169,
175, 176, 177.
Pictures of the Past, by Francis
Grundy, 60.
Poems of Anne Brontë, 54-57,
164, 188, 246.
— of Branwell Brontë, 28,
29, 42, 164, 233, 246.
— of Charlotte Brontë, 39,
103, 164, 169, 170, 246.
— of Emily Brontë, 17, 39,
174-185, 231, 232.
— The Complete, of Emily
Brontë,
"Poems, Gondal", 17, 193-208,
234.
Professor, The, 39, 89, 105, 106,
107-112, 138.
Professor, The and Jane Eyre compared,
105, 109, 110, 112, 113,
129, 138.
— — and Villette compared,
111.
— — quoted, 107, 108,
109, 111.
Pryor, Mrs., 140.

Quarterly Review, The, 53, 114,
117, 120, 121, 131.

Real, the,
— Imagination and the, 130,
134.
— germ of the, 138, 145, 158.
Realism, 163, 221, 231.
Reality, 113, 124, 138, 141, 143,
145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 159,
163, 171, 173, 174, 176, 228,
230, 231.
Reid, Sir T. Wemyss, 58, 96.
— — on Charlotte Brontë,
58, 81, 100.
— — quoted, 58-60.
Rigby, Miss (Lady Eastlake), 122.
Rivers, St. John, 91, 145.
Robinson, Miss A. Mary F.
See Duclaux, Madame.
— Mrs., 15, 33.
— — and Branwell Brontë,
15, 41, 42, 52.
— — vindicated, 41, 50.
Rochester, character of, 113, 117,
118, 119, 120, 121, 125, 140, 141.
Roe Head, 26, 27, 95, 162.

Sidgwick, Mr., 28, 64.
— Mrs., 28, 62-64.
Shirley, 46, 65, 68, 72, 100,
131-143.
— portrait of Emily Brontë
in, 70, 71, 133, 137, 147.
— dialogue in, 139-141.
— criticism of, 64, 65, 68,
137, 138.
— style in, 139, 140, 141.
— Woman in, 70, 71, 132,
133, 137, 141, 143.
Shirley and Jane Eyre compared,
131, 138, 141.
— and Villette compared, 111,
141, 148, 159.
— and Wuthering Heights compared,
139.
— quoted, 133-137, 138, 139,
140, 141, 142.
Shorter, Mr. Clement K., 13,
14, 74, 82, 84, 87, 88, 96, 100,
101, 186-190, 191, 193. See
also Prefatory Note.
Smith, Mr. George, 40, 144, 158.
Smollett, 123.
Snowe, Lucy, 71, 79, 89.
— — and Pauline de
Bassompierre, 153-157.
Sources of Wuthering Heights, 16,
196-209, 231.
Southey, Robert, Charlotte
Brontë's letter to, 99.
Southey's, Robert, advice to
Charlotte Brontë, 99.
Stephen, Mr. Leslie, 62, 63, 79.
Style, 100, 102, 103, 105, 106,
128, 160, 161, 162, 230, 231.
Sue, Eugène, 243, 244.
Supernatural, the, in Wuthering
Heights, 16, 207-221.
Swinburne, Mr., on Charlotte
Brontë, 14, 31, 64-65, 66, 68.
— — on Emily Brontë, 14, 174.

Taylor, Miss Mary, 15, 35, 58,
91, 92, 94, 98.
— Mr. Joe, 72.
— Mr. James, 72, 73, 74, 145.
Temperament, Charlotte Brontë's,
73, 81.
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The, 39,
40, 54, 55.
— — audacity of, 54.
— — realism of, 54.
— — and Farrar's Eternal
Hope, 55.
Thackeray, 15, 47, 61, 123.
Theories, 16, 17, 57-90, 100, 106,
231-332, 237, 238-247.
Thornton, 20.

Villette, 46, 89, 100, 105, 140-161.
— Lucy Snowe in, 71, 79, 89.
— M. Paul in. See Emanuel
Paul.
— dialogue in, 149.
— germ of the real in, 145,
158.
— reality of, 144, 145, 146,
147, 148, 158, 159, 163.
— realism of, 163, 164.
— style in, 160, 161.
— and The Professor compared,
98, 99, 111, 112.
— and Jane Eyre compared,
105, 144, 159.
— and Shirley compared, 111,
141, 148, 159.
— quoted, 149-153, 154, 155,
157.

Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 14, 196.
Williams, Mr. W.S., 40.
— — Charlotte Brontë's
letter to, 78.
Wilson, Rev. Carus, 24, 25.
Wisdom and Destiny quoted, 170,
213.
Woman, 69, 70, 117, 118, 132,
133, 140, 142, 143.
Woman, mid-Victorian, 71, 118,
132.
— modern, 133.
Woman's place in the world, 78,
142.
Women, Charlotte Brontë's, 69,
70, 132, 133.
Wooler, Miss, 26, 27, 35, 98.
Wordsworth, letters to, 99.
Wuthering Heights, 16, 17, 21, 39,
40, 46, 105, 127, 128, 130, 131,
139, 172, 173, 208-234.
— — criticism of, 209-233.
— — dialogue in, 218, 219,
220-221, 223, 224.
— — mysticism in, 173.
— — paganism in, 209,
211, 214, 222.
— — passion in, 210, 211,
212, 213, 218, 221, 222, 224,
228, 231.
— — realism in, 221, 224,
228.
— — style in, 228, 230.
— — the supernatural in,
17, 196-209, 216.
— — sources of, 232, 233,
234.