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Index
Abbotsford, Roxburghshire
“Acton Bell” (pseudonym) see Brontë, Anne
Albert, Prince Consort
Alexander, Christine, 3.1, 5.1, nts.1, nts.2
Allison, William
Alnwick, Northumberland
Andrews, Anna (teacher at Cowan Bridge), 2.1, 2.2, nts.1
Arblay, Frances d’ (Fanny Burney): The Wanderer, 10.1
Arnold, Matthew
Athenaeum (magazine), 10.1, 11.1
Athénée Royal (school, Brussels), 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
Atkins, William
Atkinson, Frances (née Walker), 1.1, 3.1, 4.1
Atkinson, Thomas, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1
Atlas (magazine), 11.1, 11.2
Aubigné, Jean-Henri Merle d’
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, 7.1; Emma, 14.1
Aykroyd, Tabitha (“Tabby”): taken on as servant, 2.1; character, 3.1; oversees Brontë children, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1; accident, 6.2; ailing, 12.1; relates stories to Elizabeth Gaskell, 14.1; confronts Patrick Brontë over his treatment of CB, 14.2; illness and death, 14.3, 14.4
Aylott and Jones (publishers), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, nts.1
Baer, Ann, n
Ball, Mr. and Mrs.
Banagher, County Offaly, Ireland, 9.1, 14.1, bm1.1; Banagher Royal Free School, 14.2 and n
Barbier, Auguste, 8.1, 9.1; “L’Idole,” 9.2
Barker, Juliet, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1, 12.1, bm1.1, nts.1, nts.2
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth
Bassompierre, Louise de, 7.1, nts.1
Belgium, 6.1, 7.1
Bell, Dr. Allan
Bell, Harriette, and n
Bell, Joseph
Bell, Mary Anna (later Nicholls), 14.1, bm1.1
Belmontet, Louis, 8.1, 9.1
Benson, A. C.
Bewick, Thomas
Binns, Benjamin, 4.1, 11.1
Birstall, West Yorkshire, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Blackwood’s Magazine, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1
Blake Hall, Mirfield, 6.1, 6.2
Blakeway, Elizabeth, 14.1, 14.2
Blanche, Mademoiselle (teacher, Brussels), 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Bolster, Violet
Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 7.1, 8.1; relic of coffin, 8.2
Bowles, Caroline
Bradford, West Yorkshire, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2
Bradley, John, 4.1, 4.2
Bradley, Reverend James
Branwell family of Penzance, 1.1, 9.1
Branwell, Charlotte (née Branwell, CB’s aunt), 1.1, 1.2
Branwell, Elizabeth (CB’s aunt): life in Penzance, 1.1, 4.1; in Thornton, 1.2; in Haworth to nurse sister, 2.1, 2.2; moves to Haworth, 2.3; as mother-substitute to Brontë children, 2.4, 5.1; character and habits, 1.3, 3.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2; finances and estate, 2.5, 3.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2; as housekeeper, 3.3, 6.4, 6.5; teaches nieces, 3.4; appearance, 4.3; relations with brother-in-law, 4.4; helps set Branwell up in business, 6.6; suggests holiday in Liverpool, 6.7; offers to support school plan, 6.8; lends money to nieces for education abroad, 6.9; illness and death, 7.3; burial, 7.4; will, 7.5, 9.1; leaves money to nieces, 7.6
Branwell, Joseph, 1.1, 1.2
Branwell, Richard
Branwell, Thomas (CB’s maternal grandfather)
Bretton, Dr. John Graham (Villette), 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Brewster, Sir David, and n
Bridlington, Yorkshire, 6.1, 6.2
Briery Close, Ambleside
Britannia (magazine), 11.1
British and Continental Mercury (newspaper), 7.1
British Library, 9.1, bm1.1
British Museum, London
Brontë Parsonage Museum, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 14.1, bm1.1, bm1.2
Brontë Society
Brontë, Anne (CB’s sister): birth and childhood, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3; quizzed by father, 2.4; imaginative life, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1; and bog burst, 2.6; home life with sisters, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2; caricatured by CB in “The Young Men’s Magazine,” 4.3; “like twins” with Emily, 4.4, 9.1; and Gondal saga, 4.5, 9.2, 9.3; Diary Papers, 4.6, 6.1, 9.4, 9.5, 11.1; in portraits by CB, 4.7; depicted in The Brontë Sisters by Branwell, 4.8; appearance, 4.9, 6.2; attitudes to love and marriage, 5.2; at Roe Head School, 5.3; leaves Roe Head, 6.3; takes up governess post at Blake Hall, 6.4; social awkwardness, 6.5; stammer, 6.6, 6.7; conduct as governess, 6.8; feelings towards animals, 6.9, 12.1; feelings for William Weightman, 6.10, 7.1; introversion, 6.11; post at Thorp Green, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.6; inherits money from aunt, 7.4; aware of Emily’s writing, 9.7; and school plan, 9.8; secret understanding of Branwell’s situation, 9.9, 9.10; resigns post at Thorp Green, 9.11; and Branwell’s decline, 9.12, 9.13, 11.2; trip to York with Emily, 9.14; writing “Passages in the Life of an Individual” (Agnes Grey), 9.15, 9.16; poems, 10.1, 10.2; pseudonym “Acton Bell,” 10.3, 10.4, 11.3; controversy over “brothers Bell,” 10.5, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.2; Poems published, 10.6; model for Mary Rivers in Jane Eyre, 11.7; publication of Agnes Grey, 11.8; dealings with Thomas Newby, 11.9, 11.10, 11.11; affected by brother’s decline, 11.12; in London with CB, 11.13; illness, 12.3, 12.4; fortitude in final days, 12.5; death and burial, 12.6; grave, 14.1
WORKS:
poems: “I will not mourn thee, lovely one,” 7.1; “A dreadful darkness closes in,” 12.1
prose: Agnes Grey, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 11.6, 11.7, 13.1
Brontë, Charlotte:
BIOGRAPHY/PERSONAL LIFE: birth and christening, 1.1; childhood, 2.1; mother’s death, 2.2; memories of mother, 2.3; leaves home for Bradford, 2.4; childhood games and activities, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2; at Cowan Bridge School, 2.6, 2.7; dislike of school regime, 2.8, 2.9; sent back to Cowan Bridge, 2.10; at Roe Head School as pupil, 4.1, 4.2; dreams of dead sisters, 4.3; visits Red House in Gomersal, 4.4; tutors sisters at home, 4.5, 4.6; superintendent of new Sunday School, 4.7; depicted in The Brontë Sisters by Branwell, 4.8; exhibits drawings at Fine Arts exhibition, 4.9; takes post at Roe Head, 4.10; mental distress at Roe Head, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1; religious doubts, 5.3; decreasing control over Glass Town saga, 5.4; sends poems to Southey, 5.5; replies to Southey’s letter, 5.6; quarrels with Margaret Wooler, 6.2; returns to work at Heald’s House, 6.3; mental breakdown at Heald’s House, 6.4; marriage proposal from Henry Nussey, 6.5; marriage proposal from David Pryce, 6.6; visits Branwell’s studio in Bradford, 6.7; governess to Sidgwick family, 6.8; holiday with Ellen at Easton and Bridlington, 6.9; sees the sea, 6.10; responds to William Weightman’s Valentines, 6.11; sends writing to Hartley Coleridge, 6.12; governess to White family, 6.13; plans to establish own school, 6.14, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2; inspired by Mary Taylor to travel abroad, 6.15; journey to Brussels in 1842, 7.1; early months at Pensionnat Heger, 7.2; separate lessons from Constantin Heger, 7.3; offered a part-time teaching post at Pensionnat, 7.4; in Brussels, summer 1842, 7.5; called home by aunt’s death, 7.6; returns to Brussels in 1843, 7.7; learning German, 8.2; attends Mardi Gras carnival with Constantin Heger, 8.3; gives English lessons to Constantin Heger, 8.4; despondency and loneliness in Brussels, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8; essay read at speech day, 8.9 and n; planning novel or story, 8.10; goes to confession, 8.11; gives in notice, 8.12; leaves Pensionnat, 8.13; offered post at Manchester school, 9.3; corresponds with Constantin Heger, 9.4, 9.5; produces school prospectus, 9.6; solicits business for school, 9.7; abandons school scheme, 9.8; holiday with Ellen Nussey in Hathersage, 9.9, 9.10; thinks of going to Paris, 9.11; publishes translations from the French, 9.12; writing novel (“The Master”), 9.13; discovers Emily’s poems, 10.1; plans to publi
sh poems with sisters, 10.2; proposes jointly authored novel to Aylott and Jones, 10.3; Poems published, 10.4; goes to Manchester with Emily, 10.5; accompanies father to Manchester for eye operation, 10.6; begins Jane Eyre, 10.7; sends Poems to admired authors, 11.1; Jane Eyre accepted by Smith, Elder & Co., 11.2; Jane Eyre published, 11.3; CB reveals authorship to father, 11.4; begins new novel, 11.5; Jane Eyre adapted for the stage, 11.6; anonymity threatened, 11.7; travels to London with Anne, 11.8; reveals identity to Smith, 11.9; visits the Opera, 11.10; and Branwell’s death, 12.1; Emily’s illness and death, 12.2; takes Anne to Scarborough, 12.3; Anne’s death and burial, 12.4; in Filey with Ellen, 12.5; and bereavement of siblings, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2; Shirley published, 13.3; “frenzy” around identity of “Currer Bell,” 13.4; visits Smiths in London in 1849, 13.5; visits London in summer of 1850, 13.6; trip to Scotland, 1850, 13.7; James Taylor proposes, 13.8; writing Villette, 13.9, 14.3; visits London in summer of 1851, 13.10; visits phrenologist, 13.11; visits the Gaskells in Manchester, 14.4; revisits Scarborough and Filey, 14.5; Arthur Nicholls proposes, 14.6; visits London in January 1853, 14.7; falls out with Ellen Nussey, 14.8; secures father’s consent to marriage, 14.9; claims to be giving up writing, 14.10; wedding, 14.11; honeymoon in Wales and Ireland, 14.12; accident in Gap of Dunloe, 14.13; pregnancy, 14.14; illness and death, 14.15; burial, 14.16
CHARACTERISTICS AND PERSONALITY: dutiful nature, prl.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1; physical appearance and manner, prl.2, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 7.2, 8.2, 8.3, 11.1, 13.1, nts.1; social isolation, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.5, 4.6, 6.2, 6.3, 7.3, 9.1; questioning of authority, 2.3, 2.4, 4.7, 9.2, 11.2, 11.3; intellectual distinction, 4.8, 4.9, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4; conscience, 4.10; love for siblings, 4.11, 6.5, 9.3; self-consciousness, 4.12, 6.6, 7.5, 8.5, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5; as teacher, 4.13, 4.14, 5.1, 7.6, 8.6, 8.7, 9.4; household skills and duties, 4.15, 6.7, 9.5, 9.6, 14.1; self-suppression, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 9.7, 9.8; anger, 5.5, 6.8, 9.9, 13.6; imaginative flights and occasional extrovertism, 6.9, 6.10, 8.8; as governess, 6.11, 6.12; sensitivity to criticism, 13.7
alter egos and pseudonyms, 3.1; “Charles Townshend,” 4.1, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3; “Charles Thunder,” 5.1; “Currer Bell,” 10.1, 10.2, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 13.1, 13.2; “Miss Brown,” 11.9, 11.10; “Miss Fraser,” 13.3
HEALTH: frailness, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 14.1; short sight, 4.3, 4.4, 14.2; diet, 4.5, 6.1; trance-like states, 5.1, 5.2, 11.1; nervous disorders and depression, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2; fears of blindness, 9.3; teeth, 10.1
LITERARY, ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE: knowledge of French language, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2; interest in visual arts, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 7.2; as poet, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1; as artist, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 7.4; portraits of Anne Brontë, 4.6; ambition to write and publish, 5.3, 5.4, 8.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 10.2; view of Emily Brontë’s writing, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 12.1 and n, 13.1; view of Anne Brontë’s writing, 10.6, 10.7, 13.2
dealings with publishers, 10.1, 11.1; Chambers, 10.2; Aylott and Jones, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6; Henry Colburn, 10.7; Smith, Elder & Co., 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 13.1; writing methods, 10.8, 11.5, 14.1; controversy over “brothers Bell,” 10.9, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 12.2
early imaginative games and writing, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1; minuscule texts, 3.4, 8.1; imaginary world, 6.1, 8.2, 8.3; sophistications and continuations of Glass Town saga, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 8.4
translations: from French, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1; from German, 8.2 and n
OPINIONS AND IDEAS: religious views and faith, prl.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1; hero-worship of Wellington, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.3, 8.2, 9.1, 13.2; politics, 4.2, 11.2; love and marriage, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.3, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4; children, 6.3, 14.5, 14.6; finances and attitude to money, 6.4, 7.4, 7.5, 8.4, 9.4, 9.5, 10.2, 10.3, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5 and n, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10; Belgians, 7.6, 7.7, 8.5, 8.6; genius, 8.7, 8.8; class politics, 9.6, 11.6; sexual politics, 9.7, 11.7, 11.8, 13.3, 13.4; heroines, 10.4, 11.9; revolutionary sensibility, 11.10, 13.5; women and writing, 14.11; parenthood, 14.12; war, 14.13
PORTRAITS OF: The Brontë Sisters, 4.1, 14.1; portrait by Mary Dixon, 8.1; portrait by George Richmond, 8.2, 13.1, 14.2, bm1.1, bm1.2; possible self-portrait, 8.3; photograph mistaken for one of CB, 14.3 and n
RELATIONSHIPS: with father, 2.1, 2.2, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3; with brother, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.2; with Ellen Nussey, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.3, 9.6, 11.3; with William Weightman, 6.4; with Constantin Heger, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 10.4, 11.4; gifts from Heger, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9; letters to Heger, 9.10, 9.11, 9.12, 9.13, 9.14, bm1.1; letters from Heger, 9.15, 9.16, 9.17, 9.18, bm1.2; with Zoë Heger, 7.5, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 9.19, 9.20; with George Smith, 13.2, 13.3, 14.4, 14.5; ungracious over George Smith’s engagement, 14.6; with Arthur Bell Nicholls, 10.5; draws portrait of Nicholls, 10.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10, 14.11, 14.12, 14.13, 14.14
WORKS:
Angrian stories and writing: “Farewell to Angria,” 2.1, 6.1, nts.1; “History of the Year,” 3.1, 3.2, 4.1; “The Young Men’s Magazine,” 3.3, 4.2; “The Green Dwarf,” 4.3; “High Life in Verdopolis,” 4.4, 8.1; “Arthuriana,” 4.5; “The Bridal,” 4.6; “Roe Head Journal,” 5.1, 5.2, 5.3; “Stancliffe’s Hotel,” 6.2; “Mina Laury,” 6.3; “Caroline Vernon,” 6.4, 6.5, 7.1; “Ashworth,” 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.2, 9.1; “Henry Hastings,” 6.9, 6.10, 7.3; “The Spell,” 8.2, 9.2, bm1.1; “Scrap Book,” 8.3; “Passing Events,” 9.3
art works: St. Martin’s Parsonage, Birmingham, 4.1; The Atheist Viewing the Dead Body of His Wife, 4.2; Bolton Priory, 4.3; Kirkstall Abbey, 4.4; William Weightman, 6.1; Watermill, 7.1, 7.2 and n, bm1.1 and n; Ashburnham Church on the Valley-Land, bm1.2 and n
critical writing: “A Word to The Quarterly,” 13.1; “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell,” 13.2
French devoirs, 7.1 and n; “L’Ingratitude,” 7.2, 7.3; “Le Nid,” 7.4; “L’Immensité de Dieu,” 7.5; “La Mort de Napoléon,” 8.1; “La Chute des Feuilles,” 8.2; “Le But de la Vie,” 8.3; “Letter d’un pauvre Peintre à un grand Seigneur,” 8.4
poems: “We wove a web in childhood,” 5.1; “I gave, at first, Attention close,” 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, nts.1; “Pilate’s Wife’s Dream,” 10.1; “Mementos,” 10.2; “Frances,” 10.3; “Gilbert,” 10.4; “He saw my heart’s woe,” 11.1
published works see under individual titles: Jane Eyre, Poems, The Professor, Shirley, Villette
unfinished stories: “The Story of Willie Ellin,” 14.1, 14.2; “Emma,” 14.3
Brontë, Elizabeth (CB’s sister), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1; school in Wakefield, 2.2; at Cowan Bridge School, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; illness and death, 2.6, 12.1 and n, 12.2, 12.3; funeral, 2.7
Brontë, Emily Jane (CB’s sister): birth and childhood, 1.1, 2.1; imaginative life, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1; quizzed by father, 2.3; at Cowan Bridge School, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7; and bog burst, 2.8; housekeeping duties, 3.3, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2; home life with sisters, 4.1, 9.3; caricatured by CB in “The Young Men’s Magazine,” 4.2; appearance, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.3, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 13.1; relationship with Anne, 4.6, 6.4, 9.4; and Gondal saga, 4.7, 9.5, 9.6, 10.1; Diary Papers, 4.8, 6.5, 9.7, 11.1; poor spelling, 4.9; depicted in The Brontë Sisters by Branwell, 4.10; depicted in remaining fragment of The Gun Group, 4.11 and n; goes to school at Roe Head, 4.12, 5.4; attitudes to love and marriage, 5.5; homesickness, 5.6, 7.2, 7.3; poetry, 5.7, 9.8, 9.9, 10.2, 11.2; formidable character and anti-social tendencies, 5.8, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.4, 7.5, 9.10, 10.3, 12.1; love of animals, 5.9, 6.9, 8.1; paintings and drawings, 5.10, 7.6, 7.7 and n, bm1.1 and n; pursuing study at home, 5.11; post at Law Hill, 6.10; as teacher, 6.11, 7.8; inspiration for, and composition of, Wuthering Heights, 6.12, 9.11; immune to Weightman’s charm, 6.13; nicknamed “The Major,” 6.14; violently disciplines Keeper, 6.15; on Branwell’s questionable success, 6.16; and school plan, 6.17, 7.9, 9.12; travels to Brussels, 7.10; at the Pensionnat Heger, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14; intellectual distinction, 7.15, 7.16; antipathy to Constantin Heger, 7.17; teaching music at Pensi
onnat, 7.18, 7.19; attitude to religion, 7.20; spends summer in Brussels in 1842, 7.21; called home by aunt’s death, 7.22; inherits money from aunt, 7.23; finances, 7.24, 11.3; bitten by dog, 8.2; and Branwell’s decline, 9.13, 9.14; visits York with Anne, 9.15; anger at CB’s discovery of poems, 10.4; insists on anonymity, 10.5; pseudonym “Ellis Bell,” 10.6 and n, 10.7, 11.4; controversy over “brothers Bell,” 10.8, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 12.2; Poems published, 10.9; scornful of publication, 10.10; accompanies CB to Manchester, 10.11; model for Diana
Rivers in Jane Eyre, 11.1; rescues Branwell from burning bed, 11.2, nts.1; publication of Wuthering Heights, 11.3, 11.4; dealings with Newby, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7; planning another novel, 11.8; model for Shirley Keeldar in Shirley, 11.9, 13.1; illness and death, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
WORKS:
essays (French devoirs), 7.1, nts.1
poems: “The Bluebell,” 5.1; “A little while, a little while,” 5.2; “Loud without the wind was roaring,” 5.3; “The Old Stoic,” 10.1; “The Prisoner,” 11.1
prose: Wuthering Heights, 2.1, 6.1, 10.1 and n, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Brontë, Maria (CB’s sister), 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2; school in Wakefield, 2.4; at Cowan Bridge School, 2.5, 2.6; illness at school, 2.7, 2.8; death, 2.9, 12.1 and n, 12.2; paragon character, 2.10, 3.3
Brontë, Maria (née Branwell, CB’s mother): family background and youth, 1.1; letters, 1.2; essay, 1.3; appearance, 1.4; character, 1.5; engagement to Patrick Brontë, 1.6; possessions lost in shipwreck, 1.7; wedding, 1.8; moves to Thornton, 1.9; friendship with Elizabeth Firth, 1.10, 1.11; births of children 1.12; relations with Patrick Brontë, 2.1, 2.2; dress cut up, 2.3; last illness, 2.4; death, 2.5, 12.1
Brontë, Patrick (CB’s father): background and youth, 1.1; family name, 1.2, 1.3; religious views, 1.4, 2.1; family relations, 1.5, 1.6, 9.1; career as teacher, 1.7; at Cambridge University, 1.8; and money, 1.9, 2.2, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.2; Irishness, 1.10, 1.11; takes Holy Orders, 1.12; curacies, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17; relationship with Mary Burder, 1.18, 2.3; poetry, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 5.1; feelings for Jane Fennell, 1.22; political sympathies, 1.23, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1; manner and appearance, 1.24, 2.4, 4.2, 6.2, 8.2; proposes to Maria Branwell, 1.25; wedding, 1.26; move to Thornton, 1.27; anxieties about insurrection, 1.28, 1.29; guns, 1.30, 2.5, 14.1; move to Haworth, 2.6; social isolation, 2.7; habits, 2.8, 2.9, 3.2, 9.3, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1; letters to newspapers, 2.10, 8.3, 8.4; strong opinions and reported eccentricities, 2.11, 2.12, 3.3, 4.3; sensibility, 2.13, 2.14, 10.2; proposes to Elizabeth Firth, 2.15; proposes to Isabella Dury, 2.16; tests children with mask, 2.17; experiences “extraordinary disruption” of bog burst, 2.18; tutors son, 3.4, 4.4; health, 3.5, 6.3; relations with sister-in-law, 4.5, 7.3; in the pulpit, 4.6; ambitions for his son, 4.7, 4.8, 6.4, 9.4; contentions with local Nonconformists and Dissenters, 5.2, 6.5, 8.5, 9.5, 9.6; speaks at 1837 hustings, 6.6; sets Branwell up in business, 6.7; accompanies Charlotte and Emily to Brussels, 7.4; home-made phrase-book, 7.5; visits Waterloo, 7.6; deteriorating eyesight, 8.6, 9.7, 10.3, 10.4, 14.2, 14.3; consumption of alcohol, 8.7, 9.8; support of church school, 9.9, 9.10; disgust at Robinson affair, 9.11; unaware of daughters’ literary activity, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1; operation for cataracts, 10.7; told of publication of Jane Eyre, 11.2; pride in CB’s achievements, 11.3; concern for son, 11.4; grief for son, 12.2; and daughter Anne’s illness, 12.3; and James Taylor’s interest in CB, 13.2, 13.3; and Arthur Nicholls’s interest in CB, 14.4, 14.5; and CB’s illness and death, 14.6; fondness for Arthur Nicholls, bm1.1; will, bm1.2; death and funeral, bm1.3; Winter-Evening Thoughts (poems), 1.31; Cottage Poems (poems), 1.32, 1.33, 1.34; The Maid of Killarney (prose), 1.35; The Cottage in the Wood (prose), 1.36, 11.5; “The Phenomenon” (poem), 2.19
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