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The Key to the Brontë Works: The Key to Charlotte Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Jane Eyre,' and her other works.Malham-Dembleby, John

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The Key to the Brontë Works: The Key to Charlotte Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Jane Eyre,' and her other works.

Name: The Key to the Brontë Works: The Key to Charlotte Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Jane Eyre,' and her other works.
Author: Malham-Dembleby, John

Malham-Dembleby, John

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855; Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848

THE KEY TO THE
  BRONTË WORKS.




  THE KEY TO THE
  BRONTË WORKS

  THE KEY TO CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S "WUTHERING HEIGHTS,"
  "JANE EYRE," AND HER OTHER WORKS.

  SHOWING THE METHOD OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND THEIR
  RELATION TO THE FACTS AND PEOPLE OF HER LIFE.


  BY
  JOHN MALHAM-DEMBLEBY.


  London and Felling-on-Tyne:
  THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD.
  NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE.
  1911.

  _All Rights Reserved._




CONTENTS.


  CHAP.                                                     PAGE

     I. OUTLINE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S LIFE                    13

    II. ORIGIN OF THE CANDLE-BEARING BEDSIDE VISITANT AND
          THE UNCOUTH SERVANT IN "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" AND
          "JANE EYRE"                                         20

   III. ORIGIN OF THE FOUNDLING HEATHCLIFFE AND HIS NAME
          IN "WUTHERING HEIGHTS"--ORIGIN OF THE INSANE
          LADY AND THE WHITE VEIL SCENE IN "JANE EYRE"        33

    IV. A RAINY DAY IN CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S CHILDHOOD:
          THE OPENING INCIDENT IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
          OF THE HEROINES OF "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" AND
          "JANE EYRE"                                         37

     V. CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S FRIEND, TABITHA AYKROYD, THE
          BRONTËS' SERVANT, AS MRS. DEAN OF "WUTHERING
          HEIGHTS," AND AS BESSIE AND HANNAH OF "JANE EYRE"   43

    VI. CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S CHILD APPARITION IN "THE
          PROFESSOR," "WUTHERING HEIGHTS," AND "JANE EYRE"    52

   VII. THE ORIGINALS OF GIMMERTON, GIMMERDEN, GIMMERTON
          KIRK AND CHAPEL, PENISTON CRAGS, THE FAIRY CAVE,
          ETC., IN "WUTHERING HEIGHTS," AND OF THE FAIRY
          CAVE AND THE FAIRY JANET IN "JANE EYRE"             57

  VIII. THE RIVERS OR BRONTË FAMILY IN "JANE EYRE"            69

    IX. ORIGIN OF THE YORKSHIRE ELEMENT IN CHARLOTTE
          BRONTË'S HUNSDEN OF "THE PROFESSOR"; HEATHCLIFFE
          OF "WUTHERING HEIGHTS"; ROCHESTER OF "JANE EYRE";
          AND YORKE OF "SHIRLEY"                              83

     X. HEATHCLIFFE OF "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" AND ROCHESTER
          OF "JANE EYRE" ONE AND THE SAME                     90

    XI. CATHERINE AND HEATHCLIFFE OF "WUTHERING HEIGHTS"
          AS JANE AND ROCHESTER OF "JANE EYRE"                93

   XII. EUGÈNE SUE AND CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S BRUSSELS LIFE.
          I. MDLLE. LAGRANGE AND HER MANUSCRIPT
          "CATHERINE BELL, THE ORPHAN"                       104

  XIII. EUGÈNE SUE AND CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S BRUSSELS LIFE.
          II. ACCUSATIONS AND PROTESTATIONS!                 120

   XIV. THE RECOIL, I.                                       130

    XV. THE RECOIL, II.                                      143

   XVI. THE BRONTË POEMS                                     156


APPENDIX.

  MINOR IDENTIFICATIONS OF PERSONS AND PLACES IN THE
    BRONTË WORKS                                             159

  THE HÉGER PORTRAIT OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË IN THE
    NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY                                162

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