GENERAL INDEX.

Aire, or Ayre, Malham, source of the, 23, 60-1, 71 Armytage, Bart., Sir Geo. J., 160 Aykroyd, Tabby. See Brontë servants Branwell, Maria, of Penzance, marries Patrick Brontë, 75; death of, 14, 159-161 —— Aunt (Elizabeth), and the Hégers, 113-4; Branwell Brontë her favourite, 37, 78-9; in mourning for, 72-3 —— Cousin Eliza, 68, 80 Brontë, 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; passionateness, 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, Héger 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 Hégers), teacher and pupil, viii.-x., 63, 82, 120-2, 131, 138, dejection at, 120-1, 124; M. Héger, viii.-xi., 14-17, 93, 96-107, 111-2, 120-154, 162-8, and her literary secrets, 104, 162; Madame Héger, 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 Hégers, 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 publishing, 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; "Passion," 157. Her hypochondria, 16, 87-8; "Puir Mary Lee," 45, 149, 150; the storm, 16, 17, 130-154, 157-8; vindictiveness against M. Héger, 16, 17, 143-6, 152; Ghoul and Satyr notion, 140-6; Héger 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; Héger 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 Brontës, 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 rôle 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 Shirley —— 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 Brontë, 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 Shirley. Brown, Martha, 47, 96, 161; Brown, Tabitha (Mrs. Ratcliffe), and Charlotte Brontë'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 Devonshire, Duke of, 20 Dewsbury, 14, 83, 160; Hartshead, 81, 160 Dobell, Sydney, 153-4, 169 Dyson, Greenwood, and Charlotte Brontë, 164 Elf, of Craven, The, 60, 141-2 Evans, Miss (Miss Temple), 110, 114 Fairy Cave, The, and Fairy Janet: see Malham Gaskell, Mrs., and M. Héger, 15, 96, 104; Madame Héger, 163; West Indian girl mystery, 108 —— Misses, 165 Hathersage, 70-1, 77 Haworth, 68, 70, 138, 164; Church, 13, 19, 164; Parsonage, 69, 72-82, 159, 161, 164 Héger, M., as Charlotte Brontë's pupil, viii.-x., 120, 122; original of her chief heroes, 14, 16-17, 83-6, 89-93, 96-7, etc.; not secretive, 111, 162; and Roman Catholic Church, 16, 132, 138; a great and religious personality, 121, 124, 126-9, 132-3, 137-8, 154, 166; Charlotte Brontë's harsh portrayals of, 143-6; facial metamorphoses, 85; the bitterness of his life, 128-9, 130-2; "Paul," 162-6; as M. de Morville, 82, 104-6, 120-9, 132, 163. See Key Index for M. Héger —— Madame, 16; her jealousy, 104, 112, 117-8, 122-3, 121-2; appearance of, 106; as Madame de Morville, 106-133. See Key Index for Madame Héger Hawke, E. G., 163 Hodge, Harold, xi., 153 Holloway, Laura C., 77 Holmes, Professor Charles J., 165 Holroyd, Kt., Sir Charles, vii. Kendal, 106; Kendall Institution, 114-7 Kirkby Malham Church, 64, 66-8 Lagrange's Manuscript "Catherine Bell," 104-119 Lambert family, 64 Lucan's "Pharsalia," 14 Lytton, Lord, 163 M'Clory, Alice, 13 Malham, original of Gimmerton of Wuthering Heights: home of Catherine Earnshaw, and of Janet Aire of Jane Eyre, 22-3, 57-68, 71; source of the Aire or Ayre, 71. See Key Index of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre for Malham in Montagu Malham, or Malam, origin of family, 67 Malham and Kalderworth, 67 Malhamdale, enchanted land, 60, 71 Montagu or Mountagu, Admiral, and Charles II., 20, 64; De Ruyter, 20 Montagu, Basil, 20-1 Montagu, Frederic, his Gleanings in Craven provides the Malham background, and the plots of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, and Charlotte Brontë's nom de guerre, Currer Bell, 20-36, 57-68, 141-2, 145. See Montagu in the Key Index for those works Montagu, John, fourth Earl of Sandwich, 20 Morville de, M., Alphonsine, and Gérard, see M. Héger; Madame, see Madame Héger National Portrait Gallery, and Héger Portrait of Charlotte Brontë, xi., 162-8; Thomas Baylis, 163; and Richmond portrait, 168 Newby, Thomas, 19, 153, 169 Nicholls, Rev. A. B., see Charlotte Brontë; also Key Index for Villette Nussey, Ellen or Nelly, 14, 45, 71, 77, 160, 168; Rev. Henry, 77 Procter, Mrs., and Miss Perry, 167 Rigby, Miss (Lady Eastlake), 138-9, 153, 169 Ripon, K.G., Marquis of, xii. Ritchie, Lady, xi., 165-8 Shorter, Clement K., viii., 22, 77, 83, 147, 162, 164 Smith, George, xi., 86, 160-1, 166-8; Mrs. Smith, 166-7. See Key Index for Villette; Reginald John, K.C., 162; Smith Elder & Co., 161-2, 168 Sue, Eugène, ix., 16, 103-129. See Key Index to the Brontë works. Taylor family of Hunsworth, 83-9 (see Key Index); Mary and Martha, 83-4 Thackeray, W. M., xi., 34, 167-8. See Key Index, Villette Welch, Catherine Galbraith, xi. West Indian Girl, mystery of, 106-8, 112 Winkworth, Catherine, 96 Wise, Thomas J., 64 Wooler, Margaret, 18, 160 Yates, W. W., 75