Emily Brontë

Eminent Women Series

Edited by John H. Ingram

EMILY BRONTE

All Rights Reserved.

EMILY BRONTE

by

A. MARY F. ROBINSON

Second Edition.

London: W. H. Allen and Co. 13, Waterloo Place 1883.

[All Rights Reserved]

London: Printed by W. H. Allen and Co., 13 Waterloo Place. S.W.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Introduction 1✦

CHAPTER I. Parentage 8✦

CHAPTER II. Babyhood 18✦

CHAPTER III. Cowan's Bridge 28✦

CHAPTER IV. Childhood 40✦

CHAPTER V. Going to School 53✦

CHAPTER VI. Girlhood at Haworth 61✦

CHAPTER VII. In the Rue d'Isabelle 77✦

CHAPTER VIII. A Retrospect 92✦

CHAPTER IX. The Recall 103✦

CHAPTER X. The Prospectuses 111✦

CHAPTER XI. Branwell's Fall 116✦

CHAPTER XII. Writing Poetry 128✦

CHAPTER XIII. Troubles 144✦

CHAPTER XIV. Wuthering Heights: its Origin 154✦

CHAPTER XV. Wuthering Heights: the Story 168✦

CHAPTER XVI. 'Shirley' 209✦

CHAPTER XVII. Branwell's End 217✦