After the close of 1850, Charlotte Brontë resolved into the mood which was an earlier characteristic; and the choice of the name of Snowe for herself and the extraordinary tenacity with which she held to the name, having it re-inscribed in _Villette_ by the printers though she had herself changed it, show she had returned somewhat to that state in regard to her affection for M. Héger responsible for the passionateness of her _Wuthering Heights_. And as following the completion of _Villette_ she decided to marry a man she did not really love, I would say her mood was honestly in sympathy with that in which she wrote _Wuthering Heights_ through bitter, adverse circumstances and the warping of destiny, and did not result from Sydney Dobell's advice to her when, having read _Shirley_ and _Jane Eyre_, and despite her disclaimer in a preface, thinking she was the author of _Wuthering Heights_, he advised her to resume the frame of mind in which she had penned her _Wuthering Heights_.[88] Dobell's supposition that she wrote the book had no connection whatsoever with my discovering Charlotte Brontë was the author of _Wuthering Heights_; neither had the fact that Miss Rigby--Lady Eastlake--in _The Quarterly Review_, spoke of _Wuthering Heights_ as "purporting to be written by Ellis Bell" but having "a decided family likeness to _Jane Eyre_," and with still more point, identified "Catherine and Heathcliffe of _Wuthering Heights_ as Jane and Rochester of _Jane Eyre_ in their native state." For I early found I must credit only the internal evidence of the Brontë works as my interpretative guide. Having written "The Key to _Jane Eyre_" nothing could prevent my discovery of that novel's kinship with _Wuthering Heights_; and so far back as August 29, 1902, I penned in a private letter enclosed with the proof sheets of my article to Mr. Harold Hodge, the editor of _The Saturday Review_, a confession that I was finding a strong kinship between the two novels. I owe to my persistent consciousness of this close kinship the fact that I finally discovered the amazing secrets of _Wuthering Heights_, and was enabled to state publicly in my _Fortnightly Review_ article of March 1907, Charlotte Brontë and none other wrote _Wuthering Heights_. It was then I turned with interest to the remarks of Sydney Dobell, the author of _Balder_, and "a notable figure in the history of English thought" as he has been named, whose review of Charlotte Brontë's works had resulted in her being acclaimed a leading author and a genius. It was in _The Palladium_ of September 1850 Sydney Dobell said:--