[7] Her correspondence is given in Sir Wemyss Reid's _Monograph on Charlotte Brontë_, in Mrs. Gaskell's _Life of Charlotte Brontë_, Haworth Edition, and in Mr. Clement Shorter's _The Brontës: Life and Letters_, 1908. [8] _Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle_, by Clement Shorter. [9] Charlotte Brontë, upon the other hand, was a most fluent writer of prose. She sent Wordsworth a story in 1840, and spoke of her facility in writing novels. (Mrs. Gaskell's _Life of Charlotte Brontë_, pages 189-190, Haworth Edition.) It is said Emily corrected misprints, etc., in her printed volume of _Wuthering Heights_; but whether or not she did this at Charlotte Brontë's instigation is of little interest and no importance in view of the literal evidence in _The Key to the Brontë Works_. It may be Emily turned Charlotte's amanuensis; and it would not be difficult to show Anne Brontë also had been Charlotte's understudy. See my remarks on _Wildfell Hall_ in Appendix. [10] See my remarks, page 39. [11] When King Charles II. was crowned, Montagu carried the sceptre. A historian states that the Admiral--who, I may say, had been a great friend of Richard Cromwell--perished in the sea-fight with De Ruyter, because he would not leave his ship by a piece of obstinate courage, provoked by a reflection that he took care more of himself than of the king's honour. [12] For Basil Montagu see _Dictionary of National Biography_. [13] On the other side of the same page Montagu concluded the narration of his "A Night's Repose," with which I deal later. [14] Clement Shorter's _Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters_, p. 164. [15] See my observations on the name of Lucy Snowe. [16] The name of "Helen Burns," that saintly sister of Charlotte Brontë, may have been suggested by the St. Helen's Well which Montagu states was near Miss Currer's home, Eshton Hall. [17] _The Brontë Country_, by Dr. Erskine Stuart. [18] A recognizable idiosyncrasy of Charlotte Brontë's genius is the vivid minuteness with which she paints and records apparently unimportant details and happenings connected with her early childhood. (See footnote on page 41.) [19] See footnote page 47. [20] _Emily Brontë_, Miss Mary Robinson; 1883. [21] Angus Mackay, in _The Brontës: Fact and Fiction_ (1897), identifies Miss Brontë with Caroline Helstone. Charlotte Brontë's mother was a native of Penzance, near Helston.