The Key to the Bronte Works Part 21

Heger, Madame, as Mdlle. Reuter, 111, 122

Offered to publishers, 17; published, 160

VILLETTE.

Bronte, Charlotte, as Lucy Snowe, 86, 131, 144, 120, 148-152; origin of name, 22, 56, 149, 151; childhood reading, 41; and Father Confessor, 77, 132, 136-7; as Paulina, 47, 120, and Cathy Linton, 161; Paulina and Mr. Home--Charlotte and Rev. Patrick Bronte, 161; final words in, 129

Bretton, Dr. John, Paulina's lover, 69, 161; as Mr. George Smith and Rev. A. B. Nicholls, 69, 86, 145, 160-1.

Mrs. Bretton, 166

Heger, M., as Paul Emanuel, 42, 96-7, 126, 131, 145; his harshness, 85-6; and Thackeray, 70

Heger, Madame, as Madame Beck, 118, 133

Ritchie, Lady, and green dress, xi., 165-8

Villette as London and Brussels, 160-1

Published, 19; inception, 166

_Agnes Grey_ and _Wildfell Hall_, 17, 161.

GENERAL INDEX.

Aire, or Ayre, Malham, source of the, 23, 60-1, 71

Armytage, Bart., Sir Geo. J., 160

Aykroyd, Tabby. See Bronte servants

Branwell, Maria, of Penzance, marries Patrick Bronte, 75; death of, 14, 159-161

---- Aunt (Elizabeth), and the Hegers, 113-4; Branwell Bronte her favourite, 37, 78-9; in mourning for, 72-3

---- Cousin Eliza, 68, 80

Bronte, 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; pa.s.sionateness, 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, Heger _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 Hegers), teacher and pupil, viii.-x., 63, 82, 120-2, 131, 138, dejection at, 120-1, 124; M. Heger, viii.-xi., 14-17, 93, 96-107, 111-2, 120-154, 162-8, and her literary secrets, 104, 162; Madame Heger, 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 Hegers, 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 publis.h.i.+ng, 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; "Pa.s.sion," 157.

Her hypochondria, 16, 87-8; "Puir Mary Lee," 45, 149, 150; the storm, 16, 17, 130-154, 157-8; vindictiveness against M. Heger, 16, 17, 143-6, 152; Ghoul and Satyr notion, 140-6; Heger 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; Heger 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 Brontes, 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 role of author of _Wuthering Heights_, 17, 138, 146, 169; no internal evidence of her in _Wuthering Heights_, viii.; her life contrasted with Charlotte's, 17, 18, 156-7; relations with Branwell, 18, 39, 40, 139; appearance and life, 17, 72-4, 78, 81-2, 156-7; Poems, "Old Stoic," "Last Lines," 157; her literary limitations, 17, 156-7; death of, 161-5.

See Key Index of _s.h.i.+rley_

---- Maria (Helen Burns), 18, 41, 71.

See Key Index; also M. Sue

---- Patrick Branwell, appearance, 79; artist, 18, 165-6; his verse, 158; enjoys the hearth, 37-8; a sign of trouble for, 52-3; evil days, 39, 78-9, 158; and Aunt Branwell, 78-9; and M. Sue, 106, 110.

As Hindley and John Reed, x., 18, 37-8, 52-3, 69, 78-9, 139.

See also Key Index for _Wuthering Heights_, _Jane Eyre_, and _The Professor_

---- Rev. Patrick, parents, Hugh Brunty and Alice M'Clory, 13; at Ballynaskeagh and Drumballyroney, 13; at Cambridge, 13, 74-5; Wethersfield, 75, and Mary Burder; Dewsbury, 75; Vicar of Hartshead, 160; marries Maria Branwell, 18, 75, 159-161; Vicar of Thornton, 14; of Haworth, 13; appearance and life, 13, 70-7, 82, 147, 159-161, 167-8; verse, 13, 158; and Mrs. Gaskell's Life, 15.

Also see Key Index

---- Poems, 156-8; Aylott and Jones, 17, 105, 160

---- servants: Aykroyd Tabitha, x.; as Nelly Dean and Bessie, 43-53, 168; does not understand Charlotte Bronte, 43, 45-6; and old songs, 45-7; also, 72, 77-8, 147-8, 160, 168; her homily, 40; her gift of narrative and fairy tales, 44-5; death of, 19, 96-7.

Also see Key Index for _Wuthering Heights_, _Jane Eyre_, and _s.h.i.+rley_.

Brown, Martha, 47, 96, 161; Brown, Tabitha (Mrs. Ratcliffe), and Charlotte Bronte's married life, 96; Garrs, Nancy, and sister, 47, 159

Brookfield, Mrs., 167-8

Carlisle, William, 167

Carus-Wilson, Rev. Mr., 115

Casterton Hall, 23; Clergy Daughters' School, 18, 81, 106, 108-111, 114-117

Cornwall, Barry, 34

Courtney, William Leonard, xi., 104

Cust, Lionel, 162

Devons.h.i.+re, Duke of, 20

Dewsbury, 14, 83, 160; Hartshead, 81, 160

Dobell, Sydney, 153-4, 169

Dyson, Greenwood, and Charlotte Bronte, 164