Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle

unintentionally. I think those married women who indiscriminately urge their acquaintance to marry, much to blame. For my part, I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller s...

In picturing the circle which surrounded Charlotte Bronte through her brief career, it is of the utmost importance that a word of recognition should be given, and that in no hal...

We have seen how Charlotte Bronte and her sisters wrote from their earliest years those little books which embodied their vague aspirations after literary fame. Now and again th...

Charlotte Bronte was not beautiful, but she must have been singularly fascinating. That she was not beautiful there is abundant evidence. When, as a girl of fifteen, she became...

There is a letter, printed by Mrs. Gaskell, from Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, in which Miss Bronte, when a girl of seventeen, discusses the best books to read, and expresse...

It would seem quite clear to any careful investigator that the Reverend Patrick Bronte, Incumbent of Haworth, and the father of three famous daughters, was a much maligned man....

If to be known by one's friends is the index to character that it is frequently assumed to be, Charlotte Bronte comes well out of that ordeal. She was discriminating in friendsh...

Without the kindly assistance of Mr. Arthur Bell Nicholls, this book could not have been written, and I might therefore be supposed to guide my pen with appalling discretion in...

Emily Bronte is the sphinx of our modern literature. She came into being in the family of an obscure clergyman, and she went out of it at twenty-nine years of age without leavin...

Mary Taylor, the 'M---' of Mrs. Gaskell's biography, and the 'Rose Yorke' of _Shirley_, will always have a peculiar interest to those who care for the Brontes. She shrank from p...

The devotion of Charlotte Bronte to Thackeray, or rather to Thackeray's genius, is a pleasant episode in literary history. In 1848 he sent Miss Bronte, as we have seen, a copy o...

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It can scarcely be doubted that Anne Bronte's two novels, _Agnes Grey_ and _The Tenant of Wildfell Hall_, would have long since fallen into oblivion but for the inevitable assoc...

The younger Patrick Bronte was always known by his mother's family name of Branwell. The name derived from the patron Saint of Ireland, with which the enthusiastic Celt, Romanis...

Had not the impulse come to Charlotte Bronte to add somewhat to her scholastic accomplishments by a sojourn in Brussels, our literature would have lost that powerful novel _Vill...

In seeking for fresh light upon the development of Charlotte Bronte, it is not necessary to discuss further her childhood's years at Cowan Bridge. She left the school at nine ye...

The kindly, placid woman who will ever be remembered as Charlotte Bronte's schoolmistress, had, it may be safely said, no history. She was a good-hearted woman, who did her work...

Eighty years have passed over Thornton since that village had the honour of becoming the birthplace of Charlotte Bronte. The visitor of to-day will find the Bell Chapel, in whic...

Something has already been said concerning the growth of the population of Haworth during the period of Mr. Bronte's Incumbency. It was 4668 in 1821, and 6301 in 1841. This make...

wondrous cordial and friendly. Papa, in his usual fashion, put him through a regular catechism of questions: what his living was worth, etc., etc. In answer to inquiries respect...

say, revived me again, and the circumstance of papa being just now in good health and spirits gives me many causes for gratitude. When we have but one precious thing left we thi...

'I shall come to be lectured. I perceive you are ready with animadversion; you are not at all well satisfied on some points, so I will open my ears to hear, nor will I close my...