Aire, or Ayre, Malham, source of the, 23, 60-1, 71
Armytage, Bart., Sir Geo. J., 160
Aykroyd, Tabby. See BrontË servants
Branwell, Maria, of Penzance, marries Patrick BrontË, 75;
death of, 14, 159-161
—— Aunt (Elizabeth), and the HÉgers, 113-4;
Branwell BrontË her favourite, 37, 78-9;
in mourning for, 72-3
—— Cousin Eliza, 68, 80
BrontË, Annie or Anne (Acton Bell), as understudy to Charlotte, 17, 169;
Gondal Chronicles, 17;
Agnes Grey and Wildfell Hall, 17, 161;
appearance and life, 70-4, 77-8, 81-2;
Poems, 156-8;
death of, 161-5
—— Charlotte, birthplace, 14;
birthday, 14, 106;
appearance, 118, 131, 165, 168.
Childhood:
a rainy day, 18, 37-42, 78;
curtain incident, 38;
Branwell as "tyrant" makes her head ache, 18, 37-42;
"volume-hurling," 38-9, 78;
Methodist literature, 40-2;
writings and Mrs. Gaskell, 14;
Tabby, 38, 40-1, 43-51, 168
—her homily, 40
—old songs and fairy tales (Charlotte's love of Scottish ballads), 47, 149, 150;
the locked chamber, 48-51;
passionateness, 45-6, 48-51, 116.
Elfish imagination, 23;
schools, 14, 16, 18, 21-2, 81, 104, 106-117
—Clergy Daughters' School, 18, 21-2, 81, 106-117,
Roe Head, 14, 16, 83,
HÉger pension, 16, 18, 72, 104;
drawings, 82;
her life from childhood to womanhood, 93-103;
no psychical reciprocity with friends, 14;
Wordsworth and her facility in writing novels, 17, 169;
at Brussels (the HÉgers),
teacher and pupil, viii.-x., 63, 82, 120-2, 131, 138,
dejection at, 120-1, 124;
M. HÉger, viii.-xi., 14-17, 93, 96-107, 111-2, 120-154, 162-8,
and her literary secrets, 104, 162;
Madame HÉger, 16, 104-7, 111-2, 117-9, 122-7, 133,
forbids corresponding, 16;
Charlotte as Mdlle., 105,
as M. Sue's Mdlle. Lagrange and Miss Mary, ix., 82, 103-132, 163;
Imitation of Christ, ix., 121-2;
her priest, 77, 132-8;
departure from Brussels, 16, 127;
flight from temptation, 105, 141-2, 122-9, 151-2;
the fiery ordeal, 154;
parting with the HÉgers, 122-132;
origin of her works, vii., 15, 20-36, 138;
Montagu, see Key Index for Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre;
Alembert, 64-5;
Currer Bell, 17, 21-2;
perpetuates drama of her life, vii., 15, 16, 154;
Branwell, 18,
and his aunt, 79;
at Haworth Parsonage, 69-82;
school project given up, 16, 169.
Poems publishing, 17:
"Apostasy" and "Regret," 96-7, 133-7;
"Frances," 132, 134, 144, 150-1;
"Gilbert," 139, 143-4;
"The Letter," 105;
"Mementos," 150;
"Apostasy," 133-7;
"Preference," 132;
"Passion," 157.
Her hypochondria, 16, 87-8;
"Puir Mary Lee," 45, 149, 150;
the storm, 16, 17, 130-154, 157-8;
vindictiveness against M. HÉger, 16, 17, 143-6, 152;
Ghoul and Satyr notion, 140-6;
HÉger and her heroes (see also the Taylors, 83-9), 83-92;
heaven undesired by lover, 97, 133-4, 139;
elective affinities, cloven tree, and "twin-soul," 96-7, 147-8;
supernatural "way" to "twin-soul" lover (and the haunted wind), 55-6, 136-7, 140, 147-8;
eerie signal against lattice, 28-30, 53-6, 147-8;
dual portraiture, 69, 70, 77, 83-9, 120, 159, 160, 161;
ice-cold wailing child apparition, 28-30, 52-6, 151;
her two dreams preface to "bedside apparition," 28-30;
name selection method, 22, 68;
chronological sequences in her works, 161;
character of her correspondence, 14, 15;
HÉger portrait of, in National Portrait Gallery, xi., 162-8;
Richmond Portrait in N.P.G., 168;
Wuthering Heights complications (conspires to accredit and sustain Emily as author), 17, 146, 169;
her fear of Mr. Newby, 19, 153, 169;
limitations of Mrs. Gaskell's Life, 15
—disappointment of, 104;
last survivor of the young BrontËs, 19, 161;
Introduction to her sisters' poems, 156-7;
Miss Austen, 15;
Rev. A. B. Nicholls, marriage with, 19, 96-7, 161
—Catherine Winkworth on, 96;
Wildfell Hall, 17, 161;
at Thackeray's and the Smiths', xi., 166-8;
dedicates Jane Eyre to Thackeray, xi.;
Greenwood Dyson and, 164.
Last days:
father and daughter, 161;
her resting-place, 19;
her Message and high rank of her genius, 16, 155.
Also see the Key Index to her works
—— Elizabeth, 18, 71-2, 106-7
—— Emily (Ellis Bell), as understudy to Charlotte, 17, 169;
conspires with her to sustain rÔle of author of Wuthering Heights, 17, 138, 146, viii., 22, 77, 83, 147, 162, 164
Smith, George, xi., 86, 160-1, 166-8;
Mrs. Smith, 166-7. See Key Index for Villette;
Reginald John, K.C., 162;
Smith Elder & Co., 161-2, 168
Sue, EugÈne, ix., 16, 103-129.
See Key Index to the BrontË works.
Taylor family of Hunsworth, 83-9 (see Key Index);
Mary and Martha, 83-4
Thackeray, W. M., xi., 34, 167-8.
See Key Index, Villette
Welch, Catherine Galbraith, xi.
West Indian Girl, mystery of, 106-8, 112
Winkworth, Catherine, 96
Wise, Thomas J., 64
Wooler, Margaret, 18, 160
Yates, W. W., 75