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The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Devoirs (exercises in French)
Imitation: portrait de Pierre L’Hermite; Sur la nom de Napoléon. In
E. C. Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë vol 1, 1857 (3rd edn 1857
corrects ‘nom’ to ‘mort’).
From an unpublished French essay of Charlotte Brontë. Bookman 7,
Feb 1895. English extracts of La mort de Moïse.
An early essay by Charlotte Brontë [on Millevoye’s La chute des
feuilles]. Introd by M. H. Spielmann, Brontë Soc Trans 6 pt 34
1924. Previously pbd TLS 19 July 1923.
Four essays by Charlotte Brontë: the authentic fire in exercises in
Brussels [‘Human justice’; ‘Athens saved by poetry’; ‘The palace
of death’, tr D. Cornish; ‘The sick girl’, tr J. P. Inebnit]. Brontë Soc
Trans 12 pt 62 1952. English trn only.
French essays by Charlotte and Emily [‘La mort de Napoléon’, tr M.
Lane].Brontë Soc Trans 12 pt 64 1954. Variant ms ‘Sur la mort de
Napoléon’ pbd in E. C. Gaskell, The life of Charlotte Brontë vol 1,
1857 (incorrectly transcribed in 1st edn ‘Sur la nom de Napoléon’,
corrected in 3rd edn).
More Brontë devoirs [‘La chenille’, ‘La mort de Moïse’, and ‘La chute
des feuilles’, tr and ed P. Bentley]. Brontë Soc Trans 12 pt 65 1955.
Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Le nid’: an unpublished manuscript. Tr and ed
L. J. Dessner, Brontë Soc Trans 16 pt 83 1973. English trn only.
On the struggles of a poor and unknown artist: a devoir by Charlotte
Brontë. Ed S. Lonoff, Brontë Soc Trans 18 pt 95 1985.
Lonoff, S. (ed). Charlotte and Emily Brontë: the Belgian essays. New
Haven CT 1997.
Translations, editions and prefaces
Preface [to the 2nd edn of Jane Eyre, dedicating the work to W. M.
Thackeray]. 1847 (2nd edn); see Jane Eyre, above.
Note to the third edition of Jane Eyre. 1848; see Jane Eyre, above.
Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: by Ellis and Acton Bell: a new
edition, revised, with a biographical notice of the authors, a selection
from their literary remains, and a preface by Currer Bell [pbd
as Biographical notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, Editor’s preface to
the new edition of Wuthering Heights, and Selections from
poems by Ellis and Acton Bell]. Ed C. Brontë 1850.
Preface [to The professor]. 1857, etc; see The professor, above.
Voltaire’s Henriade, book 1. Tr C. Brontë. Ed C. K. Shorter 1917 (priv
ptd). See E. L. Duthie, Charlotte Brontë’s translation: The first
canto of Voltaire’s Henriade, Brontë Soc Trans 13 pt 69 1959.
A word to the Quarterly: Charlotte Brontë’s rejected preface to
Shirley. Brontë Soc Trans 16 pt 85 1975; in Shirley, 1979
(Clarendon edn), above.
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Textual/bibliographical studies
Wroot, H. E. The persons and places of the Brontë novels. Brontë Soc
Trans vol 3 1906; rptd as Sources of Charlotte Brontë’s novels:
persons and places, suppl with Brontë Soc Trans 8 pt 45 1935. C.
Brontë’s novels only.
MacLean, G. E. Unpublished essays in novel writing by Charlotte
Brontë. Brontë Soc Trans 5 pt 26 1916.
Suppressed passages: a collation of the earlier and later editions of
Mrs Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë. Brontë Soc Trans 6 pt 31
1921. Collation by C. W. Hatfield.
Hatfield, C. W. The early manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë: a bibliography.
Brontë Soc Trans 6 pts 32–4 1922–4.
Clark, A. P. The manuscript collections of the Princeton University
Library: an introductory survey. Princeton Univ Lib Chron 19,
Spring/Summer 1958. On Charlotte Brontë mss.
Brooks, R. L. Unrecorded newspaper reviews of Charlotte Brontë’s
‘Shirley’ and ‘Villette’. PBSA 53 1959.
Brammer, M. M. The manuscript of The professor. RES n.s. 11, May
1960.
Passel, A. Charlotte Brontë: a bibliography of the criticism of her
novels. BB 26 1969, 27 1970.
Harkness, B. The Clarendon ‘Jane Eyre’. Nineteenth-Century
Fiction 25, Dec 1970.
Jack, I. and M. Smith. The Clarendon ‘Jane Eyre’: a rejoinder.
Nineteenth-Century Fiction 26, Dec 1971.
Langlois, E. Early critics and translators of ‘Jane Eyre’ in France.
Brontë Soc Trans 16 pt 81 1971.
Stevens, J. A Brontë letter corrected. Brontë Soc Trans 16 pt 81 1971.
Correction of transcription of letter from Charlotte Brontë to
Miss Dixon in W. Gérin, Charlotte Brontë, 1967.
Stevens, J. Woozles in Brontëland: a cautionary tale. SB 24 1971.
Study of errors in ptd version of Charlotte Brontë’s letter to Mary
Taylor, Sep 1848.
Rosengarten, H. J. Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley and the Leeds Mercury.
SEL 16 1976.
Peters, M. Charlotte Brontë: a critico-bibliographic survey
1945–1974. Br Stud Monitor 6 and 7 1976–7.
Parkison, J. Charlotte Brontë: a bibliography of 19th century criticism.
BB 35 1978.
Alexander, C. Recent research on Charlotte Brontë’s juvenilia.
Brontë Soc Trans 18 pt 91 1981.
Sabol, R. C. and T. K. Bender. A concordance to Charlotte Brontë’s
Jane Eyre. New York 1981 (Garland Reference Lib of the
Humanities).
Alexander, C. A bibliography of the manuscripts of Charlotte
Brontë. Haworth and New York 1982.
Alexander, C. The early writings of Charlotte Brontë. Oxford and
Buffalo NY 1983.
Alexander, C. Some new findings in Brontë bibliography. N & Q 228,
June 1983.
Bemelmans, J. A Charlotte Brontë manuscript. N & Q 228, Aug 1983.
Smith, M. The manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë’s novels. Brontë Soc
Trans 18 pt 93 1983.
Dunn, R. I. (ed). Charlotte Brontë and her readers. In Jane Eyre, 1987
(Norton Critical 2nd edn).
Whitehead, B. The Wooler letters: discrepancies between the Wise
and Symington Shakespeare Head transcripts of Charlotte
Brontë’s letters to Miss Wooler and Miss Catherine Wooler and
the original letters . . .. Brontë Soc Trans 19 pt 4 1987.
Smith, M. Charlotte Brontë’s letters. Brontë Soc Trans 20 pt 1 1990.
List of unlocated mss.
Nudd, D. M. Bibliography of film, television and stage adaptations
of Jane Eyre. Brontë Soc Trans 20 pt 3 1991.
Alexander, C. Editorial creations and editorial compromise: the art
of the possible in the case of the Brontës. In The textual condition:
rhetoric and editing, ed M. Blackburn, F. Muecke and M.
Sankey, Sydney 1995.
Selected criticism
Letters/early comments on Jane Eyre
Lockhart, J. G. Letter to Mr and Mrs Hope 29 Dec 1847. In A. Lang,
The life and letters of J. G. Lockhart vol 2, 1897.
Mitford, F. Letters to Miss Mitford 9 Jan, 18 Feb 1850, and to Mrs
James 2 Apr 1850. In The letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
ed F. G. Kenyon, 1897.
Taylor, M. Letter to Charlotte Brontë 24 July 1848. In The Brontës:
their lives, friendships and correspondence, ed Wise and
Symington, vol 2.
Thackeray, W. S. Letter to W. S. Williams 23 Oct 1847. In The letters
and private papers of W. M. Thackeray, ed G. N. Ray, vol 2 1947.
Eliot, G. Letter to Charles Bray 11 June 1848. In The George Eliot
letters, ed G. S. Haight, vol 1 1954.
Letters/early comments on Shirley
Mitford, F. Letter to Mrs James 2 Apr 1850. In The letters of
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed F. G. Kenyon, 1897.
Arnold, T. Unpublished letter to his sister Mary 15 Aug 1851.
Alexander Turnbull Lib, Wellington NZ.