[288] A little dog, called in the next letter ‘Flossie, junr.,’ which indicates its parentage. Flossy was the little dog given by the Robinsons to Anne.
[325] The originals are in the possession of Mr. Alfred Morrison of Carlton House Terrace, London.
[330] De Quincey Memorials, by Alexander H. Japp. 2 vols. 1891. William Heinemann.
[332a] Agnes Grey, a novel, by Acton Bell. Vol. III. London, Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, 72 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square.
[332b] And yet the error not infrequently occurs, and was recently made by Professor Saintsbury (Nineteenth Century Literature), of assuming that it was Jane Eyre which met with many refusals.
[332c] Mr. Nicholls assures me that the manuscript was not rewritten after his marriage, although I had thought it possible, not only on account of its intrinsic merits, which have not been sufficiently acknowledged, but on account of the singular fact that Mlle. Henri, the charming heroine, is married in a white muslin dress, and that her going-away dress was of lilac silk. These were the actual wedding dresses of Mrs. Nicholls.
[333] Anne Marsh (1791-1874), a daughter of James Caldwell, J.P., of Linley Wood, Staffordshire, married a son of the senior partner in the London banking firm of Marsh, Stacey, & Graham. Her first volume appeared in 1834, and contained, under the title of Two Old Men’s Tales, two stories, The Admiral’s Daughter and The Deformed, which won considerable popularity. Emilia Wyndham, Time, the Avenger, Mount Sorel, and Castle Avon, are perhaps the best of her many subsequent novels.
[335] The Professor was published, with a brief note by Mr. Nicholls, two years after the death of its author. The Professor, a Tale, by Currer Bell, in two volumes. Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1857.
[348] Lady Eastlake died in 1893.
[349] Letters and Journals of Lady Eastlake, edited by her nephew, Charles Eastlake Smith, vol. i. pp. 221, 222 (John Murray).
[350] Life of J. G. Lockhart, by Andrew Lang. Published by John Nimmo. Mr. Lang has courteously permitted me to copy this letter from his proof-sheets.
[361] Name of place is erased in original.
[373] Thus in original letter.
[398] That Thackeray had written a certain unfavourable critique of Shirley.
[402] This article was by John Skelton (Shirley).
[403] Now in the possession of Mr. A. B. Nicholls.
[408] Thackeray writes to Mr. Brookfield, in October 1848, as follows:—‘Old Dilke of the Athenæum vows that Procter and his wife, between them, wrote Jane Eyre; and when I protest ignorance, says, “Pooh! you know who wrote it—you are the deepest rogue in England, etc.” I wonder whether it can be true? It is just possible. And then what a singular circumstance is the + fire of the two dedications’ [Jane Eyre to Thackeray, Vanity Fair to Barry Cornwall].—A Collection of Letters to W. M. Thackeray, 1847-1855. Smith and Elder.
[423] Chapters from Some Memories, by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Macmillan and Co. Mrs. Ritchie and her publishers kindly permit me to incorporate her interesting reminiscence in this chapter.
[432] George Henry Lewes (1817-1878). Published Biographical History of Philosophy, 1845-46; Ranthorpe, 1847; Rose, Blanche, and Violet, 1848; Life of Goethe, 1855. Editor of the Fortnightly Review, 1865-66. Problems of Life and Mind, 1873-79; and many other works.
[434] Richard Hengist Horne (1803-1884). Published Cosmo de Medici, 1837; Orion, an epic poem in ten books, passed through six editions in 1843, the first three editions being issued at a farthing; A New Spirit of the Age, 1844; Letters of E. B. Browning to R. H. Horne, 1877.
[444] Printed by the kind permission of the Rev. C. W. Heald, of Chale, I.W.
[446] Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth (1804-1877). A doctor of medicine, who was made a baronet in 1849, on resigning the secretaryship of the Committee of Council on Education; assumed the name of Shuttleworth on his marriage, in 1842, to Janet, the only child and heiress of Robert Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley (died 1872). His son, the present baronet, is the Right Hon. Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth.
[457a] Some experiments on a farm of two acres.
[457b] Letters of Matthew Arnold, collected and arranged by George W. E. Russell.
[468] Mr. Nicholls is the Mr. Macarthey of Shirley. Here is the reference which not unnaturally gratified him:—‘Perhaps I ought to remark that, on the premature and sudden vanishing of Mr. Malone from the stage of Briarfield parish . . . there came as his successor, another Irish curate, Mr. Macarthey. I am happy to be able to inform you, with truth, that this gentleman did as much credit to his country as Malone had done it discredit; he proved himself as decent, decorous, and conscientious, as Peter was rampant, boisterous, and—(this last epithet I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag). He laboured faithfully in the parish; the schools, both Sunday and day-schools, flourished under his sway like green bay-trees. Being human, of course he had his faults; these, however, were proper, steady-going, clerical faults: the circumstance of finding himself invited to tea with a dissenter would unhinge him for a week; the spectacle of a Quaker wearing his hat in the church, the thought of an unbaptized fellow-creature being interred with Christian rites—these things could make strange havoc in Mr. Macarthey’s physical and mental economy; otherwise he was sane and rational, diligent and charitable.’—Shirley, chap. xxxvii.
[469] John Stuart Mill, who, however, attributed the authorship of this article to his wife.
[491] The Nusseys.
[495] The Rev. George Sowden, vicar of Hebden Bridge, Halifax, and honorary canon of Wakefield, is still alive.
INDEX
Abbotsford, 453-4.
Academy of Arts Royal, 14, 15, 124.
Agnes Grey—its publication, 161, 184, 331, 332; reprint, 364, 365; Charlotte on, 162, 336, 337, 388; value of, 181.
Ahaderg, County Down, 28.
Alexander, Miss, 468.
Ambleside, 126, 205, 442, 454, 457.
Amy Herbert, 260.
Antwerp, 102.
Arnold, Matthew, 145, 457, 458, 459.
Arnold, Dr., 263, 400, 442, 454, 456, 457, 458, 459.
Arnold, Mrs. Thomas, 456, 458.
Athanæum, 178, 334, 340, 404, 408, 431, 459.
Bangor, 491.
‘Beck, Madame.’ See Héger, Madame.
Bell, Rev. Alan, 465.
Bell Chapel, Thornton, 56.
Bengal Hurkaru, 362.
Bennoch, Francis, 491.
Bernard-Beere, Mrs., 164.
Berwick Warder, 165.
Bierly, 47.
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte, 164.
Birstall, 3, 107, 116, 210, 214, 224, 239, 261, 312, 457.
‘Black Bull,’ Haworth, 143, 361.
Blackwood’s Magazine, 121, 139, 141, 147.
Blake Hall, 84, 149, 182, 296.
Bolitho, Sons, & Co, 103.
Bombay Gazette, 323.
Borrow’s Bible in Spain, 189.
Bowling Green Inn, Bradford, 106.
Bradford, 41, 42, 46, 51, 58, 124, 150, 206, 211, 284, 292.
Bradford Review, 54.
Bradley, Rev. Richard, 291.
Branwells of Cornwall, 30.
Branwell, Anne, 34.
Branwell, Eliza, 217.
Branwell, Elizabeth, 34, 51, 52, 61, 92, 96, 102, 103-4, 105, 112, 147.
Branwell, John, 217.
Branwell, Margaret, 34.
Branwell, Maria. See Brontë, Mrs.
Branwell, Thomas, 33.
Branty, 28.
Braxborne, 395.
Bremer, Frederika, 187.
‘Bretton Mrs.’ See Smith, Mrs.
Brewster, Sir David, 268, 463.
Briery, Windermere, 5.
Britannia, 358.
‘Brocklehurst Mr.’ See Wilson, Carus.
Bromsgrove, 134.
Brontë, Anne Chapter vii., 181-203 birth, 51; baptism, 56, 57; at Haworth, 60; as governess, 19, 88, 90, 97, 112, 128, 150, 296; at Brussels, 128; at Scarborough, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201; in Miss Branwell’s will, 103; and Charlotte, 113, 159, 352; as Emily’s chum, 120, 144, 145, 147, 148; and Miss Nussey, 160, 182-4, 208, 209, 219, 307; and the Misses Robinson, 137, 182, 288; and Mr. Weightman, 286; her dog (see Flossie); her drawings, 67; her letters, 144; her unpublished MSS, 25, 61, 62, 71-2, 144; her novels (see Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) her poems, 325-331; her portrait, 123; her illness and death, 175, 176, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 262, 281, 393, 439, 440, 467; her grave, 203.
Brontë, Branwell Chapter v., 120-143; birth, 51, 123; baptism, 57; at school, 123, 290, 291; at the Royal Academy of Arts, 14, 15, 124; at Luddenden Foot, 127, 147, 148, 150, 152; in his aunt’s will, 103, 104, 105; and Anne, 154; and Charlotte, 25, 81, 92, 93, 119, 120, 121, 122, 131, 140, 141; Charlotte’s letters to, 112-14, 115, 120, 239; and Emily, 142; and his father, 137, 138, 139, 142, 465; and Hartley Coleridge, 125-7; and F. H. Grundy, 128; Jane Eyre, 14, 143; and Miss Nussey, 106, 219; and the Robinsons, 18, 19, 112, 128, 129-31, 136, 137, 182; his sketches, 14, 67, 123; his writings, 72, 73, 123, 125-7; his translation of Horace, 126; his portrait, 138; his character, 124; his idleness, 133, 134, 135, 137; his death, 61, 138-41, 165, 191.
Brontë, Charlotte birth, 51; baptism, 57; her place at the Haworth dinner-table, 60; childhood, 56-73; her father (see Brontë, Patrick) her mother (see Brontë, Mrs. Patrick) her sisters (see Brontë, Anne; Brontë, Emily; Agnes Grey; Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Wuthering Heights) her brother (see Brontë, Branwell) her school life (see Wooler, Margaret; Cowan Bridge; and Roe Head) her school friends (see Nussey, Ellen; Taylor, Mary) at the Sidgwicks’ (q.v.), 79-84; at the Whites’ (q.v.), 85-94; at Brussels (see Héger M. and Madame; Jenkins, Rev. Mr.; The Professor; Villette; Wheelwright, Lætitia); in London, 14, 107, 214, 268, 270, 416, 417-28; her father’s curates, 280-92 (see also De Renzi, Rev. Mr.; Nicholls, Rev. A. B.; Smith, Rev. Peter Augustus; Weightman, Rev. W.; and Shirley) her lovers, 293-324 (see also Nicholls, Rev. A. B.; Nussey, Rev. Henry; Taylor, James) her literary ambitions, 325-369; her unpublished literary work, 61-7, 68; her published work (see Jane Eyre, The Professor, Shirley, Villette, Poems); her publishers (see Aylott & Jones, Newby, and Smith Elder & Co); her literary friendships, 429-463 (see also Gaskell, Mrs.; Martineau, Harriet; Smith, George; Thackeray, W. M.; Williams, W. S.); her critics (see Eastlake, Lady; Kingsley, Charles; Lewes, G. H.; and various periodicals); her marriage, 8, 261, 464, 491 (see Nicholls, Rev. A. B.); her appearance, 22, 74, 293, 457; her death, 500; her grave, 54, 500; her will, 24, 500; her biography, 1-26 (see also Gaskell, Mrs.; Grundy, F. H.; Leyland, F. A.; Nussey, Ellen; Reid, Sir Wemyss); her portrait, 123, 294; on affection for her family, 88; on children, 376-8, 381; on female friendships, 205; on governessing, 84, 228, 382; on ladies’ college, 277; on women in the professions, 378, 382, 395, 396; on marriage, 261, 295-6, 298, 303, 304-6, 307, 310, 383, 394, 493, 494; on spinsters, 134; on men, 199, 490; on authors and bookmakers, 165; on her critics, 176, 269; on lionising, 266, 270; on literary coteries, 270, 353, 389, 399; on money rewards of literature, 275; on the art of biography, 385; on her heroes, 345; on the French, 411; on French politics, 343, 373; on war, 264; on Shakespeare-acting, 270; on dancing, 211; on the Bible, 213, 216; on religion, 140, 166, 193, 211; on the value of work, 203, 396.
Brontë, Elizabeth, 51, 56, 74, 358.
Brontë, Emily Chapter vi, 144-180; birth, 51; baptism, 57; at Haworth, 59, 60; her childhood, 74; her school days, 145; as a teacher, 15, 145; at Brussels, 97, 100, 102, 111, 133, 145; as Anne’s chum, 120, 144; in Miss Branwell’s will, 103; and the French newspapers, 241; Charlotte’s letters to, 25, 91, 114, 116, 117, 119; her religion, 14, 100, 145; her portrait, 123-4; her likeness to G. H. Lewes, 432; her messages to Miss Nussey, 160-1, 208, 209; her dog (see Keeper); her sketches, 67, 154, 157; her unpublished writings, 61, 62, 70, 146, 148, 150-2; her novel (see Wuthering Heights); her poetry, 144, 154, 325-31; her illness and death, 165, 166-75, 186, 345; her character, 60, 111, 112, 144, 146, 167, 177; Matthew Arnold on, 145; Charlotte on, 4, 165, 337; Sydney Dobell on, 145; A. Mary F. Robinson on, 121, 122; Swinburne on, 146; Dr. Wright on, 157, 158;