I did not know of Montagu's book at the time; and of all the Brontë novels I had only read _Jane Eyre_. I remember once reflecting--while _Kalderworth_ was being published--that Charlotte Brontë must have called her character Jane Eyre after the river Aire, just as I had called my loosely composite village up in Malhamdale Kalderworth, from the river Calder; and I thought Currer Bell, in her choice of the name "Jane Eyre," had been actuated poetically by the fact of the adjacency of the Yorkshire river Aire, or Ayre, and had changed the "A" in Aire, just as I the "C" in Calder. Nor was it till years later that I knew Charlotte Brontë had written in _Shirley_, Chapter XIX., of "Calder or Aire thundering in flood." [36] That Gimmerton in _Wuthering Heights_ means "the village of sheep" was admitted years ago. The etymology is very obvious. We now have the circumstances in which Charlotte Brontë chose the name. [37] See my footnote, page 58. [38] Thus she put her cousin Eliza Branwell under the same roof as herself and Branwell Brontë in _Jane Eyre_. [39] The Poems prepared for publication in the autumn of 1845 bear evidence of the influence of Montagu's work. It was at this time Montagu's work provided Charlotte Brontë's _nom de guerre_ of Currer Bell. See my foot-note on Frances of _The Professor_ as the Fairy Jane, page 63. [40] A copy of this will is printed in _The Brontës: Life and Letters_. [41] Mr. Augustine Birrell in his _Life of Charlotte Brontë_ (1887), gives a very interesting insight into a love episode of Mr. Brontë, during his first curacy, at Wethersfield, near Braintree, Essex. Mr. Brontë found a home with a Miss Mildred Davy, with whose niece, a "comely damsel of eighteen--a Miss Mary Mildred Davy Burder--with brown curls and blue eyes" he fell in love. A plotting guardian uncle, however, removed Miss Burder and wrongly intercepted all Mr. Brontë's letters. Subsequently Mr. Brontë married Miss Maria Branwell, of Penzance, visiting in Yorkshire, whom he married at St. Oswald's Church, Guiseley, near Leeds. After the death of his wife, Mr. Brontë offered to marry Miss Burder, but was refused. She became the wife of the Rev. Peter Sibree, of Wethersfield. Mr. W. W. Yates' book, _The Father of the Brontës_, 1897, shows us Mr. Brontë as a curate at Dewsbury. Mr. Yates, who is the originator of the Brontë Society and Museum, rightly associated Mr. Brontë with Mr. Helstone of _Shirley_, supporting his contention by evidence.