The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
Tales of the Islanders, in four volumes. Contents of the 1st Vol.:--l.
An Account of their Origin; 2. A Description of Vision Island; 3.
Ratten's Attempt; 4. Lord Charles Wellesley and the Marquis of
Douro's Adventure; completed June 31st, 1829. 2nd Vol.:--1. The
School-rebellion; 2. The strange Incident in the Duke of Wellington's
Life; 3. Tale to his Sons; 4. The Marquis of Douro and Lord Charles
Wellesley's Tale to his little King and Queen; completed Dec. 2nd,
1829. 3rd Vol.:--1. The Duke of Wellington's Adventure in the
Cavern; 2. The Duke of Wellington and the little King's and Queen's
visit to the Horse-Guards; completed May 8th, 1830. 4th Vol.:--1. The
three old Washer-women of Strathfieldsaye; 2. Lord C. Wellesley's
Tale to his Brother; completed July 30th, 1830.
Characters of Great Men of the Present Age, Dec. 17th 1829.
The Young Men's Magazines, in Six Numbers, from August to December,
the latter months double number, completed December the 12th, 1829.
General index to their contents:--1. A True Story; 2. Causes of the
War; 3. A Song; 4. Conversations; 5. A True Story continued; 6. The
Spirit of Cawdor; 7. Interior of a Pothouse, a Poem; 8. The Glass
Town, a Song; 9. The Silver Cup, a Tale; 10. The Table and Vase in
the Desert, a Song; 11. Conversations; 12. Scene on the Great
Bridge; 13. Song of the Ancient Britons; 14. Scene in my Tun, a
Tale; 15. An American Tale; 16. Lines written on seeing the Garden
of a Genius; 17. The Lay of the Glass Town; 18. The Swiss Artist, a
Tale; 19. Lines on the Transfer of this Magazine; 20. On the Same,
by a different hand; 21. Chief Genii in Council; 22. Harvest in
Spain; 23. The Swiss Artists continued; 24. Conversations.
The Poetaster, a Drama, in 2 volumes, July 12th, 1830.
A Book of Rhymes, finished December 17th, 1829. Contents:--1. The
Beauty of Nature; 2. A Short Poem; 3. Meditations while Journeying
in a Canadian Forest; 4. Song of an Exile; 5. On Seeing the Ruins of
the Tower of Babel; 6. _A Thing of_ 14 _lines_; 7. Lines written on
the Bank of a River one fine Summer Evening; 8. Spring, a Song; 9.
Autumn, a Song.
Miscellaneous Poems, finished May 30th, 1830. Contents:--1. The
Churchyard; 2. Description of the Duke of Wellington's Palace on the
Pleasant Banks of the Lusiva; this article is a small prose tale or
incident; 3. Pleasure; 4. Lines written on the Summit of a high
Mountain of the North of England; 5. Winter; 6. Two Fragments,
namely, 1st, The Vision; 2nd, A Short untitled Poem; the Evening Walk,
a Poem, June 23rd, 1830.
Making in the whole twenty-two volumes.
C. BRONTE, _August_ 3, 1830
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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