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Graham ClarkeAlready published:

T.S. Eliot D.H. LawrenceEdgar Allan Poe Thomas Hardy

Henry James Mark TwainE Scott Fitzgerald Virginia WoolfJoseph Conrad Walt WhitmanCharles Dickens George Eliot

Nathaniel Hawthorne

William Faulkner

Jamesjoyce

E.M. Forster

Forthcoming:Ernest Hemingway

Jane Austen

Emily Dickinson

John Steinbeck

Herman Melville

Willa Cather

Daniel Defoe

Contents

VOLUME I:Recollections and Obituaries; Early Studies;

Evaluations of Juvenilia and Poems;Writers on the Writing

General Editors Preface 1Introduction 3Chronology of the Lives of the Bronte Sisters 11The Bronte Sisters: A Bibliography 16The Bronte Sisters: A Critical Bibliography 24Chronological List of Criticism Included 32Acknowledgements 45

Recollections and Obituaries

1. CHARLOTTE, BRONTE, 'Biographical Notice of Ellis and ActonBell', WutheringHeights and Agnes Grey, new edn., rev., London:Smith, Elder & Co., 1850 53

2. MARYTAYLOR, from letter to Charlotte Bronte, 5 April 1850.Mary Taylor: Friend of Charlotte Bronte: Letters from New ZealandandElsewhere, New Zealand: Auckland UP, 1972 59

3. EUZABETH GASKELL, Letters to Catherine Winkworth, 25 August1850; to unknown, 25 August 1850; to John Forster, September1853; to unknown, end of September 1853, The Letters of MrsGaskell, eds J.A.V. Chappie and Arthur Pollard, Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1967 61

4. HARRIET MARTINEAU, 'Death of Currer Bell', TheDaily News,6 April 1855 rpt. 73

5. J.W.E., from 'Emily Bronte ("Ellis Bell")', MacPhail'sEdinburghEcclesiastical Journal and Literary Review, No. 164, September1859 77

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6. WILLIAM M. THACKERAY, 'The Last Sketch', CornhillMagazine, 1,January-June 1860 85

7. W.H. COOKE, 'A Winter's Day atHaworth', StJames's Magazine,21, December-March, 1868 88

8. ELLEN NUSSEY, 'Reminiscences of Charlotte Bronte', Scribner'sMonthly, 2, May 1871 98

9. THOMAS AKROYD, 'A Day at Haworth: A Reminiscence', 1872Bronte Library 113

10. WILLIAM SCRUTON, 'Martha Brown and the Brontes', Yorkshireman(Bradford), Royal Summer Number, Midsummer 1882 119

11. ANNE RITCHIE, from 'My Witches' Caldron', Macmillan'sMagazine, 63, February 1891 124

12. JOHN TAYLOR, 'Charlotte Bronte: A Story of Sorrow, Heroism,and Victory', The Methodist Monthly, January 1897 127

13. GEORGE M. SMITH, 'Charlotte Bronte', The Cornhill Magazine, 9,July-December 1900 134

Early Studies: 1848-1943

14. ANONYMOUS, 'Novels of the Season', North American Review,67.141, October 1848 153

15. ANONYMOUS, 'Reading Raids, No. VI.—Currer, Ellis and ActonBell', Tait'sEdinburgh Magazine, n.s., 122, July 1855 158

16. PETER BAYNE, 'Currer Bell' Hogg's Instructor, 4, May 1855 17317. JOHN SKELTON, 'Charlotte Bronte', Fraser's Magazine, 55, May

1857 19118. j . A., 'The Three Sisters', Englishwoman's Journal, 2,

January-February 1860 21319. LESLIE STEPHEN, 'Hours in a Library: Charlotte Bronte',

Cornhill, 36,1877 22620. BUTLER WOOD, 'The Bronte Sisters: Influence of the

Moorlands', The Bradford Argus, 6 January 1894 24421. FREDERIC HARRISON, 'Charlotte Bronte', Studies inEarly Victorian

Literature, London: Edward Arnold, 1895 25122. W.T. FIELD, 'Account of the Opening of the Bronte Museum at

Haworth, May 18,1895', Bronte Society Transactions, part 3,vol. 1, December 1895 261

23. ARTHUR w. COLTON, 'Emily Bronte', Citizen, 1 January 1896 27324. GEORGE SAINTSBURY, 'The Position of the Brontes as Origins in

the History of the English Novel', Bronte Society Transactions, 2,part 9, April 1899 281

25. JAMES FOTHERINGHAM, 'The Work of Emily Bronte, and theBronte Problem', Bronte Society Transactions, 2, part 11, June1900 291

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26. EDMUND GOSSE, 'The Challenge of the Brontes', Bronte SocietyTransactions, 2, part 14, February 1904 313

27. RICHARD GARNETT, 'The Place of Charlotte Bronte inNineteenth Century Fiction', Bronte Society Transactions, 2, part14, February 1904 318

28. C.E. VAUGHAN, 'Charlotte and Emily Bronte: A Comparison anda Contrast', Bronte Society Transactions, 4, part 22, April 1912 328

29. AUGUSTUS RALLI, 'Charlotte Bronte', Fortnightly Review, 94,September 1913 343

30. ROYTEMPLE HOUSE, 'Emily Bronte', The Nation, 107, 17 August1918 357

31. PRINCE D.S. MIRSKY, 'Emily Bronte', The London Mercury, 7.39,January 1923 360

32. HERBERT READ, 'Charlotte and Emily Bronte', The Yale Review,14.4, July 1925 " 368

33. WILBUR L. CROSS, 'Charlotte Bronte', The Development of theEnglish Novel, New York: Macmillan, 1925 381

34. E.F. BENSON, 'The Brontes', The Spectator, 7 February 1931 38735. DAVID CECIL, 'Charlotte Bronte', Early Victorian Novelists: Essays

in Revaluation, New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1935 39036. RICHARD OFFOR, 'The Brontes—Their Relation to the History

and Politics of their Time', Bronte Society Transactions, 10.4,part 53,1943 409

Critical Evaluations of Juvenilia

37. FANNIE E. RATCHFORD, 'The Brontes' Web of Dreams', The YaleReview,2l.l., September 1931 423

38. JANE w. STEDMAN, 'The Genesis of the Genii', Bronte SocietyTransactions, 14.75, 1965 437

39. CHRISTINE ALEXANDER, 'Angria Revalued: Charlotte Bronte'sEfforts to free Herself From her Juvenilia', AUMLA, no. 53,May 1980 ' 442

40. MEG HARRIS WILLIAMS, 'Book Magic: Aesthetic Conflicts inCharlotte Bronte'sjuvenilia', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 42.1,June 1987 451

Critical Evaluations of the Poenis of the Bronte Sisters

41. [SYDNEY DOBELL], 'Poetry of the Million', The Athenaeum, 975,4 July 1846 467

42. ANONYMOUS 'Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,' TheSpectator, 11 November 1848 472

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43. REV. DR BRUCE, 'The Poems of the Bronte Sisters,' Bronte SocietyTransactions, 2, part 9, April 1899 476

44. ANONYMOUS 'An Unrecovered Poetess,' The London Times, rpt.in Living Age, 286,1915 488

45. AUSTIN ROSEVEARE, 'The Poetry of Emily Bronte,' The PoetryReview, 9,June 1918 496

46. HELEN BROWN and JOAN MOTT, 'The Gondal Saga,' Bronte SocietyTransactions, 9.3, part 48,1938 505

47. c.w. HATFIELD,'Introduction,' The Complete Poems of Emily JaneBronte, New York: Columbia UP, 1941 519

48. MARTIN TURNELL, 'The Poetry of Emily Bronte', The Wind andthe Rain, 6, Summer 1949 528

49. c. DAYLEWIS, 'The Poetry of Emily Bronte', Bronte SocietyTransactions, 13, part 67,1957 540

50. LAWRENCE j . STARZYK, 'Emily Bronte: Poetry in a Mingled Tone',Criticism, 14.2, Spring 1972 557

51. EDWARD CHITHAM, from 'Introduction', The Poems of AnneBronte: A New Text and Commentary, London: Macmillan;Totowa, NJ: Roman & Littlefield, 1979 573

52. TEDDI LYNN CHICHESTER, 'Evading "Earth's Dungeon Tomb":Emily Bronte, A.G.A., and the Fatally Feminine', VictorianPoetry, 29.1, Spring 1991 587

Writers on the Writing

53. GEORGE ELIOT, from letters to Mr & Mrs Charles Bray, 11 June1848, Selections from George Eliot's Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight,New Haven: Yale UP, 1985 603

54. MATTHEW ARNOLD, 'Haworth Churchyard, April 1855', Fraser'sMagazine, 51, May 1855 604

55. EMILY DICKINSON, 'All Overgrown by Cunning Moss' (1859), TheComplete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H.Johnson,Boston: Litde, Brown 1960 609

56. ANTHONY TROLLOPE, from An Autobiography, 1883, rpt. Oxford:Oxford UP, 1950 610

57. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, 'Emily Bronte', Miscellanies,London: Chatto & Windus, 1886 611

58. HENRYJAMES, from 'London, January 15,1897', Harper's Weekly,41, 6 February 1897 617

59. VIRGINIAWOOLF, 'Haworth, November 1904', TheEssays ofVirginia Woolf, vol. 1:1904-1912, ed. Andrew McNeillie, NewYork: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986 618

60. ROBERT BRIDGES, 'Emily Bronte', The Poetical Works of RobertBridges, London: Oxford UP, 1936 622

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61. ELIZABETH BOWEN, from English Novelists, London: WilliamCollins, 1942 624

62. w. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, 'The Ten Best Novels: WutheringHeights', The Atlantic Monthly, 181, February 1948 627

63. c. DAYLEWIS, 'Emily Bronte', Collected Poems, 1954, London:Jonathan Cape 639

64. MARGARET DRABBLE, 'The Writer as Recluse: The Theme ofSolitude in the Works of the Brontes', Bronte SocietyTransactions, 16, part 84,1974 641

VOLUME II:

Responses to the Novels: Agnes Grey, WutheringHeights and The Tenant oJWildfellHall

Agnes Grey (1847)

65. GEORGE MOORE, from Conversations in Ebury Street, New York:Liveright, 1924 3

66. PRISCILLA H. COSTELLO, 'A New Reading of Anne Bronte's AgnesGrey', Bronte Society Transactions, 19.3,1987 8

Wuthering Heights (1847)

67. H. F. CHORLEY, Review of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey,Athenaeum 502, 25 December 1847 17

68. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Wuthering Heights, Examiner (London)8January 1848 19

69. CHARLOTTE BRONTE, 'Editor's Preface to die New Edition ofWuthering Heights, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, new ednrev., London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1850 26

70. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Wuthering Heights, Leader (London) 28December 1850 30

71. j . F. 'WutheringHeights', TempleBar, 81, December 1887 3472. MARYWARD, 'Introduction', Wuthering Heights, London: Smidi,

Elder & Co., 1900 4173. EDITH M. FENTON, 'The Spirit of Emily Bronte's Wuthering

Heightsas Distinguished from that of Gothic Romance',Washington University Studies, 8, October 1920 57

74. c. p. SANGER, The Structure of Wuthering Heights, London:Hogarth Press, 1926 71

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75. E. M. FORSTER, from 'Prophecy', Aspects of the Novel, New York:Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1927 83

76. LEICESTER BRADNER, 'The Growth of Wuthering Heights', PMLA,48.1, March 1933 85

77. DAVID CECIL, 'Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights', EarlyVictorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation, New York:Bobbs-Merrill, 1935 102

78. G. D. KLINGOPULOS, 'The Novel as Dramatic Poem (II):Wuthering Heights', Scrutiny, 14.4, September 1947 127

79. IRENE COOPER WILLIS, 'The Audiorship of Wuthering Heights',The Trollopian, 2.3, December 1947 145

80. MELVTN R. WATSON, ' Wuthering Heights and the Critics',Trollopian, 13, March 1949 154

81. DEREK TRAVERSI, ' Wuthering Heights After a Hundred Years', TheDublin Review, no. 445, Spring 1949 170

82. MARKSCHORER, from 'Fiction and the "Matrix of Analogy'", TheKenyan Review, 11.4, Autumn 1949 183

83. ARNOLD KETTLE, 'Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights', 1951, rpt. inAn Introduction to the English Novel, vol. 1, New York: Harper &Row, 1960 188

84. DOROTHY VAN GHENT, ' Wuthering Heights', The English Novel: FormandFunction, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1953 201

85. JOHN K. MATHISON, 'Nelly Dean and the Power of WutheringHeights', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 11.2, September 1956 216

86. CARL R. wooDRiNG, 'The Narrators of Wuthering Heights',Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 11.4, March 1957 235

87. MIRIAM ALLOTT,' Wuthering Heights: The Rejection ofHeathcliff?' Essays in Criticism, 8.1, January 1958 241

88. JAMES HAFLEY, 'The Villain in Wuthering Heights',Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 13.3, December 1958 257

89. WADE THOMPSON, 'Infanticide and Sadism in Wuthering Heights',PMLA, 78.1, March 1963 271

90. PHILIP DREW, 'Charlotte Bronte as a Critic of Wuthering Heights',Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 18.4, March 1964 281

91. JOHN DOHENY, 'From PMLA to Wuthering Heights', Paunch, 21,October 1964 295

92. CARL H. GRABO, 'Technical Characteristics of Wuthering Heights',The Technique of the Novel, New York: Gordian Press, 1964 307

93. F. H. LANGMAN, ' Wuthering Heights', Essays in Criticism, 15.3, July1965 313

94. ISOBEL MAYNE, 'Emily Bronte's Mr Lockwood', Bronte SocietyTransactions, 15.3, part 78,1968 328

95. T. K. MEIER, ' Wuthering Heights and Violation of Class', BronteSociety Transactions, 15.3, part 78,1968 335

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96. FRANK KERMODE, 'A Modern Way with the Classic', NewLiteraryHistory, 5.3, Spring 1974 340

97. j . HILLIS MILLER, ' Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the"Uncanny"', in Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels,Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1982 358

98. NANCY ARMSTRONG, 'Emily Bronte In and Out of Her Time',Genre, Fall 1982 . 382

99. SYNDY MCMILLEN CONGER, 'The Reconstruction of the GothicFeminine Ideal in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights', in TheFemale Gothic, ed. Juliann E. Fleenor, Montreal: Eden Press,1983 401

100. w. H. STEVENSON, ' Wuthering Heights: The Facts', Essays inCriticism, 35.2, April 1985 418

101. MARCI M. GORDON, 'Kristeva's Abject and Sublime in Bronte'sWuthering Heights', Literature and Psychology, 34.3,1988 432

The Tenant ofWildfellHall (1848)

102. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Examiner,29 July 1848 447

103. ANONYMOUS from 'Recent Novels', Fraser's Magazine, 39, April1849 454

104. NAOMI LEWIS, Review of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The NewStatesman and Nation, 17 August 1946 459

105. A. CRAIG BELL, 'Anne Bronte: A Re-appraisal', The QuarterlyReview, 304, July 1966 464

106. ARLENE M.JACKSON, 'The Question of Credibility in AnneBronte's The Tenant ofWildfellHall', English Studies, 63.3, June1982 470

107. MARIA H. FRAWLEY, 'The Female Saviour in The Tenant of WildfellHaW, Bronte Society Transactions, 20, part 3,1991 480

108. ELIZABETH LANGLAND, 'The Voicing of Feminine Desire in AnneBronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall', Gender and Discourse inVictorian Literature and Art, eds Antony H. Harrison andBeverly Taylor, Dekalb, 111: Northern Illinois UP, 1992 490

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VOLUME IIIEvaluations of the Novels:

Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette

Jane Eyre (1847)

109. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Jane Eyre, The Spectator, 6 November1847 3

110. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Jane Eyre, The Guardian, 1 December1847 7

111. [GEORGE HENRY LEWES] , Review of JaneEyre, Fraser's Magazine,36, December 1847 12

112. ANONYMOUS REVIEW ofJane Eyre, Christian Remembrancer, n.s., 15,April 1848 17

113. MARYTAYLOR, from letter to Charlotte Bronte, June to 24July1848, Mary Taylor: Friend of Charlotte Bronte: Letters from NewZealand and Elsewhere, ed. Joan Stevens, New Zealand:Auckland UP, 1972 30

114. LADYEASTLAKE, Review of Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre, QuarterlyReview, December 1848 33

115. ANONYMOUS from 'Noteworthy Novels', (JaneEyre), North BritishReview, 11.22,1849 62

116. VIRGINIA WOOLF, 'JaneEyreand Wuthering Heights', The CommonReader, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1925 68

117. M.H. SCARGILL, ' "All Passion Spent": A Revaluation of Jane Eyre',University of Toronto Quarterly, 19.2, January 1950 73

118. KATHLEEN TiLLOTSON, 'Jane Eyre', Novels of the Eighteen-Forties,Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954 79

119. EDGAR F. SHANNON JR, 'The Present Tense in Jane Eyre',Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 10.2, September 1955 111

120. R.E. HUGHES, 'Jane Eyre: The Unbaptized Dionysos',Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 18.4, March 1964 115

121. Q.D. LEAVIS, 'Introduction', JaneEyre, Harmondsworth,Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1966 131

122. DAVID LODGE, 'Fire and Eyre: Charlotte Bronte's War of EarthlyElements', Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and VerbalAnalysis of the English Novel, London: Roudedge, 1966 150

123. EARL A. KNIES, 'The "I" ofJane Eyre', College English, 27.7, April1966 174

124. JANE w. STEDMAN, 'Charlotte Bronte and Bewick's British Birds',Bronte Society Transactions, 15.1, part 76,1966 182

125. JOHNHAGAN, 'Enemies of Freedom in JaneEyre', Criticism, 13.4,Fall 1971 187

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126. RICHARD BENVENUTO, 'The Child of Nature, the Child of Grace,and the Unresolved Conflict ofJane Eyre'', ELH, 39.4,December 1972 210

127. ADRIENNE RICH, 'Jane Eyre: The Temptations of a MotherlessWoman', Ms., October 1973 226

128. RUTH BERNARD YEAZELL, 'More True dian Real: Jane Eyre's"Mysterious Summons."' Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 29.2,September 1974 240

129. SANDRA M. GILBERT and SUSAN GUBAR, 'A Dialogue of Self andSoul: Plain Jane's Progress', The Madwoman in the Attic: TheWoman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination,New Haven: Yale UP, 1979 254

130. TONYTANNER, 'Passion, Narrative and Identity in WutheringHeights and JaneEyre', Teaching the Text, eds Susanne Kappelerand Norman Bryson, London: Roudedge, 1983 284

131. PHILIP c. RULE, 'The Function of Allusion in Jane Eyre'', ModernLanguage Studies, 15.4, Fall 1985 298

132. MARGARET HOMANS, 'Dreaming of Children: Iiteralization inJaneEyre', Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience inNineteenth-Century Women's Writing, Chicago: U. of ChicagoPress, 1986 306

133. PETER ALLAN DALE, 'Charlotte Bronte's 'Tale Half-Told": TheDisruption of Narrative Structure in Jane Eyre', ModernLanguage Quarterly, 47.2, June 1986 324

134. CYNTHIA CARLTON-FORD, 'Intimacy Widiout Immolation: Fire inJaneEyre', Women's Studies, 15.4,1988 342

135. CAROLYN WILLIAMS, 'Closing die Book: The Intertextual End ofJaneEyre', Victorian Connections, ed. Jerome McGann,Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1989 352

136. PARAMA ROY, 'Unaccommodated Woman and the Poetics ofProperty in Jane Eyre', Studies inEngUsh Literature, 29.4, Autumn1989 375

137. SUSAN MEYER, 'Colonialism and die Figurative Strategy of JaneEyre', Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism,Exoticism, Imperialism, eds Jonadian Arac and Harriet Ritvo,Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991 388

138. SUSAN FRAIMAN, 'Jane Eyre's Fall from Grace', UnbecomingWomen: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development, NewYork: Columbia UP, 1993 410

Shirley (1849)

139. [ALBANY WILLIAM FONBLANQUE] , Review of Shirley, Examiner(London), 3 November 1849 443

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140. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Shirley, The Globe, 9 November 1849 448141. ANONYMOUS 'Shirley—by die Author of JaneEyre'', The Times

(London), 7 December 1849 453142. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Shirley, The Morning Chronicle,

25 December 1849 457143. G.H. LEWES, 'Currer Bell's Shirley', Edinburgh Review, 91, January

1850 462144. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Shirley, Westminster Review, 52, January

1850 475145. MARYTAYLOR, from letter to Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850,

Mary Taylor: Friend of Charlotte Bronte: Letters from New Zealandand Elsewhere, ed. Joan Stevens, New Zealand: Auckland UP,1972 477

146. ROBERT KEATING SMITH, 'A Well-known Character in Fiction',The Tatler, no. 40, 2 April 1902 479

147. HERBERT E. WROOT, 'The Politics of 1812', Bronte SocietyTransactions, 3, January 1906 483

148. JACOB KORG, 'The Problem of Unity in Shirley',Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 12.2, September 1957 488

149. ASA BRIGGS, 'Private and Social Themes in Shirley', Bronte SocietyTransactions, 13, part 68,1958 497

150. NORMAN A. JEFFARES, ' Shirley—A Yorkshire Novel', Bronte SocietyTransactions, 15.4, part 79, 1969 513

151. ANNE w. PASSEL, 'The Three Voices in Charlotte Bronte'sShirley', Bronte Society Transactions, 15.4, part 79,1969 526

152. NICHOLAS RANCE, 'Charlotte Bronte: Shirley (1849)', TheHistorical Novel and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-CenturyEngland, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975 531

153. HERBERT ROSENGARTEN, 'Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and the LeedsMercury', Studies in English Literature, 16.4, Autumn 1976 535

154. ROSEMARIE BODENHEIMER, 'Charlotte Bronte and die Dynamicsof Paternalism', The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction,Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988 544

155. RATE LAWSON, 'The Dissenting Voice: Shirley's Vision of Womenand Christianity', Studies in English Literature, 29.4, Autumn1989 558

156. SUSAN ZLOTNICK, 'Luddism, Medievalism and Women's Historyin Shirley: Charlotte Bronte's Revisionist Tactics', Novel, 24.3,Spring 1991 572

Villette (1853)

157. [HARRIET MARTINEAU] , Review of Villette, Daily News, 3 February1853 589

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158. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Villette by Currer Bell, The Spectator,12 February 1853 592

159. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Villette, Bell's Weekly Messenger, 12February 1853 595

160. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Villette, The Nonconformist, 16 March 1853 597161. MATTHEW ARNOLD, from letter to Mrs Forster, 14 April 1853,

Letters of Matthew Arnold 1848-1888, collected by George WE.Russell, London: Macmillan, 1896 601

162. G.H. LEWES, 'Ruthand Villette', Westminster Review, 59, April 1853 602163. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of Villette, Dublin University Magazine, 42,

November 1853 611164. UNSIGNED REVIEW, [WILLIAM WIRT KINGSLEY,] University Quarterly,

2, October 1860 615165. SUSAN M. WARING, 'Charlotte Bronte's Lucy Snowe', Harper's

New Monthly Magazine, 32, February 1866 623166. ROBERT A. COLBY, ' Villette and die Life of the Mind', PMLA, 75.4,

September 1960 632167. KATE MILLETT, from 'The Sexual Revolution', Sexual Politics,

New York: Doubleday, 1969 650168. NINA AUERBACH, 'Charlotte Bronte: The Two Countries',

University of Toronto Quarterly, 42.4, Summer 1973 659169. MARYJACOBUS, 'The Buried Letter: Feminism and Romanticism

in Villette', Women Writing and Writing About Women, ed. MaryJacobus, London: Croom Helm, 1979 673

170. LINDA HUNT, ' Villette: The Inward and the Outward Life',Victorians Institute Journal, 11,1982-3 689

171. CHARISE GENDRON, 'Harriet Martineau and Virginia WoolfReading Villette', Victorians Institute Journal, 11,1982-3 696

172. KATHLEEN BLAKE, ' Villette: "How Shall I Keep Well?"', Love andthe Woman Question in Victorian Literature: The Art ofSelf-Postponement, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1983 704

173. AVROM FLEISHMAN, ' Villette: Pilgrim of die Imagination', Figuresof Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing in Victorian andModern England, Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1983 720

174. BRENDA R. SILVER, 'The Reflecting Reader in VUktte', The VoyageIn: Fictions of Femak Development, eds Elizabeth Abel, MarianneHirsch and Elizabeth Langland, Hanover, NH: UP of NewEngland, 1983 731

175. NANCY soRKiN RABiNowiTZ,' "Faithful Narrator" or "PartialEulogist": First-Person Narration in Bronte's VUktte', TheJournal of Narrative Technique, 15.3, Fall 1985 750

176. THOMAS VARGISH, 'Charlotte Bronte: The Range of theProvidential Intention', The Providential Aesthetic in VictorianFiction, Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1985 762

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177. ROSEMARY CLARK-BEATTIE, 'Fables of Rebellion: Anti-Cadiolicismand die Structure of Villette', ELH, 53.4, Winter 1986 785

178. KAREN LAWRENCE, 'The Cypher: Disclosure and Reticence inVillette', Tradition and the Talents of Women, ed. Florence Howe,Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1991 807

179. MARY ANN KELLY, 'Paralysis and die Circular Nature of Memoryin Villette', Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 90.3, July1991 821

180. LISA SURRIDGE, 'Representing the "Latent Vashti": Theatricalityin Charlotte Bronte's Villette', The Victorian Newsletter, No. 87,Spring 1995 838

VOLUME IVEvaluations of The Professor, Twentieth-Century

Studies: 1947-95; Comparative Studies

The Professor (1857)

181. ANONYMOUS REVIEW of The Professor, Examiner, London, 20 June1857 3

182. J.A. FALCONER, ' The Professor and Villette', English Studies, 9, April1927 7

183. M.M. BRAMMER, 'The Manuscript of The Professor', The Review ofEnglish Studies, n.s., 11, May 1960 14

184. MICHAEL D. WHEELER, ' literary and Biblical Allusion in TheProfessor', Bronte Society Transactions, 17, No. 86,1976 29

185. REBECCA RODOLFF, 'From the Ending of The Professor to dieConception ofJane Eyre', Philological Quarterly, 61.1, Winter1982 38

186. ANNETTE R. FEDERICO, "The Otiier Case: Gender and Narrationin Charlotte Bronte's The Professor', Papers on Language andLiterature, 30.4, Fall 1994 55

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Twentieth-century Studies 1947-93

187. RICHARD CHASE, 'The Brontes: A Centennial Observance', TheKenyan Review, 9.4, Autumn 1947 73

188. PHYLLIS BENTLEY, 'The Significance of Hawordi', The Trollopian,2.3, December 1947 87

189. ANONYMOUS, 'At Hawordi Parsonage', The Times, 18 December1848 95

190. ANONYMOUS, 'Emily Bronte', The Times Literary Supplement,18 December 1948 96

191. F.R. LEAVIS, 'Note: 'The Brontes'", The Great Tradition, NewYork: George W. Stewart, 1949 98

192. ERNEST RAYMOND , ' Exiled and Harassed Anne', Bronte SocietyTransactions, 11.4, part 59,1949 99

193. MARGARET LANE, 'The Mysterious Genius of Emily Bronte', TheListener, 44,14 December 1950 111

194. DOROTHY COOPER, 'The Romantics and Emily Bronte', BronteSociety Transactions, 12.2, part 62,1952 118

195. WALTER ALLEN, from 'The Early Victorians', in TheEngiishNovel: A Short Critical History, New York: E.P. Dutton,1954 126

196. REBECCA WEST, 'The Role of Fantasy in die Work of dieBrontes', Bronte Society Transactions, 12.4, part 64,1954 137

197. ROBERT B. HEILMAN, 'Charlotte Bronte's "New" Gothic', FromJane Austen to Joseph Conrad: Essays Collected in Memory of James T.HiUhouse, eds Robert C. Radiburn and Martin Steinmann, Jr,Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1958 149

198. ROBERT B. HEILMAN, 'Charlotte Bronte, Reason, and die Moon',Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 14.4, March 1960 162

199. w. PHILIP MOMBERGER, 'Self and World in die Works ofCharlotte Bronte', ELH, 32.3, September 1965 179

200. RAYMOND WILLIAMS, 'Charlotte and Emily Bronte', The EnglishNovelFrom Dickens to Lawrence, New York: Oxford UP, 1970 197

201. TERRYEAGLETON, 'Class, Power and Charlotte Bronte', CriticalQuarterly, 14.3, Autumn 1972 207

202. M.A. BLOM, 'Charlotte Bronte, Feminist Manquee', BucknellReview, 21.1, Spring 1973 218

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207. N.M.JACOBS, 'Gender and Layered Narrative in WutheringHeights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall', Journal of NarrativeTechnique, 16.3, Fall 1986 303

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211. MARION j . PHILLIPS, 'Charlotte Bronte and the Priesthood of AllBelievers', Bronte Society Transactions, 20, part 3,1991 371

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221. ROBERT GODWIN-JONES, 'George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, andthe Industrial Novel', George Sand Papers: Conference Proceedings,1978, New York: AMS Press, 1978 491

222. JOYCE CAROL OATES, 'Romance and Anti-Romance: FromBron te' s/ane Eyre to Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea', Virginia QuarterlyReview, 61.1, Winter 1985 500

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223. GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTYSPIVAK, 'Three Women's Texts and aCritique of Imperialism', Critical Inquiry, 12.1, Autumn 1985 511

224. CAROL A. BOCK, 'Charlotte Bronte's Storytellers: The Influenceof Scott', Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 34, October 1991 530

225. CHRISTINE ALEXANDER, 'Readers and Writers: Blackwood's andthe Brontes', The Gaskell Society Journal, 8,1994 543

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