Clement King Shorter
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664628107
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I: PATRICK BRONTË AND MARIA HIS WIFE
CHAPTER III: SCHOOL AND GOVERNESS LIFE
CHAPTER IV: THE PENSIONNAT HÉGER, BRUSSELS
CHAPTER V: PATRICK BRANWELL BRONTË
CHAPTER XI: THE CURATES AT HAWORTH
CHAPTER XII: CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S LOVERS
CHAPTER XIII: LITERARY AMBITIONS
CHAPTER XIV: WILLIAM SMITH WILLIAMS
CHAPTER XV: WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
CHAPTER XVI: LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS
CHAPTER XVII: THE REV. ARTHUR BELL NICHOLLS
A BRONTË CHRONOLOGY
| Patrick Brontë born | 17 March 1777 |
| Maria Brontë born | 1783 |
| Patrick leaves Ireland for Cambridge | 1802 |
| Degree of A.B. | 1806 |
| Curacy at Wetherfield, Essex | 1806 |
| „ Dewsbury Yorks | 1809 |
| „ Hartshead-cum-Clifton | 1811 |
| Publishes ‘Cottage Poems’ (Halifax) | 1811 |
| Married to Maria Branwell | 18 Dec. 1812 |
| First Child, Maria, born | 1813 |
| Publishes ‘The Rural Minstrel’ | 1813 |
| Elizabeth born | 1814 |
| Publishes ‘The Cottage in the Wood’ | 1815 |
| Curacy at Thornton | 1816 |
| Charlotte Brontë born at Thornton | 21 April 1816 |
| Patrick Branwell Brontë born | 1817 |
| Emily Jane Brontë born | 1818 |
| ‘The Maid of Killarney’ published | 1818 |
| Anne Brontë born | 1819 |
| Removal to Incumbency of Haworth | February 1820 |
| Mrs. Brontë died | 15 September 1821 |
| Maria and Elizabeth Brontë at Cowan Bridge | July 1824 |
| Charlotte and Emily „ „ | September 1824 |
| Leave Cowan Bridge | 1825 |
| Maria Brontë died | 6 May 1825 |
| Elizabeth Brontë died | 15 June 1825 |
| Charlotte Brontë at School, Roe Head | January 1831 |
| Leaves Roe Head School | 1832 |
| First Visit to Ellen Nussey at The Rydings | September 1832 |
| Returns to Roe Head as governess | 29 July 1835 |
| Branwell visits London | 1835 |
| Emily spends three months at Roe Head, when Anne takes her place and she returns home | 1835 |
| Ellen Nussey visits Haworth in Holidays |
July 1836
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