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Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Brontë | CB
's father
suffered a second and quite debilitating stroke. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 731 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school in his teens, became a gentleman's tutor, and finally... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Brontë | Ironically, this last piece, with a much-reprinted and similarly exaggerated and gossipy account in the Literary Gazette, prompted Ellen Nussey
to suggest that Gaskell should write a true account of the life in order... |
Instructor | Emily Brontë | Thereafter, Patrick Brontë
educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon
's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England,... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Charlotte Brontë | Her father
presented CB
with a notebook to encourage her to write in a good, plain and legible hand, Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 201 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 201-2 |
Occupation | Charlotte Brontë | Patrick Brontë
opened a National Church Sunday School
at Haworth, to which Emily
, and Anne
, and CB
contributed by teaching. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 183 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Georgiana Craik | My Sister's Husband relates how a woman discovers her brother-in-law to be as mad as any man in Bedlam. Craik, Georgiana. “My Sister’s Husband”. Dublin University Magazine, Vol. 50 , Aug. 1857, pp. 217-25. 225 |
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