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The Key to the Brontë Works / The Key to Charlotte Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Jane Eyre,' and her other works.

Chapter 54: WORKS.
By John Malham-Dembleby
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A close-reading study that outlines Charlotte Brontë's life and systematically traces the real people, places, and incidents behind her major novels. Chapters compare scenes and names with their reported originals, map recurring motifs and compositional techniques (including gender and age transpositions), and link Yorkshire and Brussels experiences to specific characters and episodes. The author contrasts parallel passages in different novels, examines poetic fragments, and addresses disputed influences and identifications. An appendix catalogues minor correspondences and a short section discusses portraiture, together offering a detailed biographical key to the imaginative materials shaping the fiction.

WORKS.

Key to the Brontë Works, John Malham-Dembleby:—
Its place and importance, vii.-xii., 15, 17-19, 25, 58, 64, 80-2, 104, 108, 146, 154.
Importance of its Key Index, 169-171

Life of Charlotte Brontë, Mrs. Gaskell, 15, 22, 43-4, 52, 72, 83, 118, 123, 149, 161, 168;
cause of its sombreness, 82;
disappointment, and limitations, of, 15, 104;
and Branwell Brontë, 121.
Haworth Edition, 14, 17, 85, 121

Life of Charlotte Brontë, Augustine Birrell, 75

Brontës: Life and Letters, Clement K. Shorter, 14, 73, 80, 87

Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, Clement K. Shorter, 17, 135

Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters, Clement K. Shorter, viii., 22, 77, 147, 159, 164

Brontë Country, Dr. Erskine Stuart, 35

Life of Emily Brontë, Miss Mary Robinson, 39;
character of work, 57

Brontë Family, Francis Leyland, 39-40, 158

Brontës, Fact and Fiction, Rev. Angus Mackay, 13, 41, 132, 144

Brontë Homeland, J. Ramsden, 13

Brontës in Ireland, Dr. William Wright, 13

Charlotte Brontë: Monograph, Sir T. Wemyss Reid, 14

Father of the Brontës, W. W. Yates, 75

Rev. Patrick Brontë's Collected Works, Horsfall Turner, 13, 158

Thornton and the Brontës, William Scruton, 161

Chapters from Some Memories, Lady Ritchie, 167

Craven Highlands, Harry Speight, 60

Dictionary of National Biography, Leslie Stephen, 21, 159

English Dialect Dictionary, Dr. Joseph Wright, 68, 149

Gleanings in Craven, Frederic Montagu, 20-36, 57-68, 141-2, 145;
Leeds and Skipton, 20;
dedicated to Duke of Devonshire, printed by A. Pickard, published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 20.
Also see under Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, for Malham and Montagu, and Key Index to those works

Kalderworth, or Lawyer Vavasor's Secret, John Malham-Dembleby,
Malham background of, 67;
when written, and origin of title, 67;
published by Joseph Cooke, Sir Edward Russell, Kt., and A. G. Jeans, 67

Memorials of Two Sisters: Susanna and Catherine Winkworth, 96

Miss Mary ou L'Institutrice, Eugène Sue, 82, 84, 105-6, 120, 126-7, 130, 163.
See Key Index for M. Sue

Mrs. Brookfield and Her Circle, 167

Sydney Dobell's Life and Letters, 153-4

Woman's Work in English Fiction, Clara H. Whitmore, A.M., viii.

Magazines, Etc.

Academy, 169
Cornhill Magazine, 162
Dundee Advertiser, xi.
Fortnightly Review, xi., 39, 70, 104, 125, 162-3
Liverpool Post, 67
London and Paris Courier, G. W. MacArthur Reynolds and M. Sue, 105
London Journal; Weekly Times, 105
New York Times Saturday Review, xi.
Outlook, xi.
Palladium, 153-4, 169
Quarterly Review, 138-9, 153, 169
Saturday Review, xi., xii., 20, 68, 153
Sheffield Independent, 67
Spectator, xi., 125
Times, 162, 164
Tribune, 162-5