Brontës (226 page)

Baldwin, Sarah (
née
Crowther),
946

Baldwin, Revd William,
947
969

Balzac, Honoré de,
780

Banagher (Ireland),
895
974

Bardsley, James,
252
255
399

Barraclough, James,
106

Bassompierre, Louise de,
463

Baxter, Richard:
Dying Thoughts
,
158

Beaver, John,
100

Bedford, Mr & Mrs (of Lousy Thorn),
45
64

Bell, Dr Alan,
522

Bell, Mrs Alan,
522
974

Bell, Currer (Charlotte's pseudonym): source of name,
337

Bell, Revd James Adamson,
907

Bell, Mary
see
Nicholls, Mary,

Bellerby, Henry,
548
549
559

Bennoch, Francis,
871
875
880
885

Benson, Edward White, Archbishop of Canterbury,
957

Bewick, Thomas,
174
216

Bible Society, Bradford
see
Bradford Auxiliary Bible Society

Binns, Benjamin,
244

Bircham, Captain,
13

Birrell, Augustine,
22

Bishop Blaize festivities,
86

Bishop, Revd William,
102

Blackwood's Magazine
: advertises Patrick's
Maid of Killarney
,
87
Branwell writes to,
161
267
270
282
285
305
388
469
490
561
influence on Brontës,
161
173
175
180
192
228
review copy of
Poems
by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell sent to,
579

Blake Hall, near Mirfield,
358
365
372
384

Blakeway, Elizabeth
see
Smith, Elizabeth

Bland, Susan,
398

Blücher, Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von,
72

‘Bluebell, The'(Anne Brontë; poem),
401

Bolton Abbey,
230

Boocock, Mrs (singer),
480

Booth, John,
52

Bowditch, T. Edward:
Mission … to
Ashantee,
180

Bowles, Caroline (Mrs Robert Southey),
470

Bradford: Patrick attracted to,
32
and Thornton,
73
Library and Literary Society,
81
Branwell sets up studio in,
340
354
and Haworth Church,
347
Chartists riots in,
654
Dicken's reads in,
906
cultural activities,
961

Bradford Auxiliary Bible Society,
63
70
81
82
95

Bradford Church Institution,
506

Bradford Herald
(newspaper),
467
469
548

Bradford Observer
(newspaper),
310
312
417
441
507
743
786
942
947
950
956

Bradford School of Industry,
82
90

Bradley, Revd James Chesterton,
474
604
692

Bradley, John: teaches art to Brontës,
174
203
248
357

Branwell, Anne (
née
Carne; Maria's mother),
55

Branwell, Benjamin (Maria's brother),
56

Branwell, Charlotte (Maria's sister; Joseph's wife),
58
65
809

Branwell, Elizabeth (Maria's sister; Aunt Branwell): in Penzance,
56
stay in Haworth,
76
81
134
150
154
165
197
378
nurses dying sister Maria in Haworth,
119
and young Maria's death,
159
reading,
169
gives book to Brontë children,
174
and Brontë children's upbringing,
175
knowledge of French,
194
subscribes to
Fraser's Magazine
,
208
Ellen Nussey describes,
226
229
at Haworth concerts,
245
Methodist upbringing,
291
327
opposes nursing of Tabitha Aykroyd,
300
character,
327
nurses John Fennell,
416
offers to finance school for nieces,
422
424
helps fund Brussels visit,
424
430
446
illness and death,
474
will and estate,
480

Branwell, Joseph (Maria's cousin),
56
58
65
809

Branwell, Richard (Maria's uncle),
56

Branwell, Thomas (Maria's father),
55

Branwell, Thomas (Richard's son),
58

Branwell, Thomas Brontë (Charlotte Branwell's son),
809

‘Branwell's Blackwood's Magazine',
184
191

Brewster, Sir David,
799
802

Bridlington,
366
368

Britannia
(journal),
637

British and Foreign Bible Society,
88
90

Brontë, Anne: birth and baptism,
99
102
childhood,
150
174
books and reading,
171
lessons in art and music,
174
imaginary world (Gondal) and early writings,
178
185
188
220
224
273
301
316
401
512
531
535
565
604
lacks friends,
211
275
teaches Sunday school,
213
Ellen Nussey describes,
227
pianoplaying,
247
portraits by Branwell and Charlotte,
251
on life at Haworth Parsonage,
257
attends Roe Head school,
275
284
321
character,
275
visits Franks's home,
292
poetry,
301
307
320
401
476
510
535
565,
604
684
687
influenced by Scott,
319
illness at Roe Head,
326
331
333 religious anxieties and beliefs,
327
331
685
703
as governess with Ingham family,
358
loses job with Ingham's,
372
and William Weightman,
380
429
476
as governess to Robinsons at Thorp Green,
385
403
411
421
429
477
481
509
550
Scarborough holidays,
420
511
515
diary paper,
420
536
proposed school scheme,
422
returns to Haworth on death of Aunt Branwell,
474
inheritance from Aunt Branwell,
480
529
home holidays,
515
resigns post with Robinsons,
531
536
549
visits York with Emily,
531
and Branwell's relations with Mrs Robinson,
542
pseudonym (Acton Bell),
565
poems published pseudonymously,
567
574
579
586
684
novel-writing,
590
626
640
657
asthma,
611
letters from Elizabeth and Mary Robinson,
616
676
ill-health (tuberculosis),
624
673
686
693
presents from Ellen Nussey,
624
meets and entertained by George Smith in London,
658
appearance,
660
defends
Wildfell Hall
in preface,
666
and Branwell's funeral,
672
makes dying visit to Scarborough,
693
legacy from Fanny Outhwaite,
698
death and funeral,
701
Charlotte writes biographical notice of,
771
Charlotte revises poetry,
774
Charlotte visits grave and alters gravestone,
824
in Mrs Gaskell's biography of Charlotte,
977

Brontë, Branwell (i.e. Patrick Branwell): born and baptized,
85
childhood and upbringing,
125
150
and death of elder sisters,
161
classical learning and reading,
170
193
373
388
392
home education and reading,
170
juvenile writing,
176
179
184
188
208
216
219
222
231
235
238
261
267
283
287
294
302
316
322
334
337
349
353
play and imaginary worlds,
178
209
216
235
302
322
605
618
Charlotte satirizes,
190
early allusions to drinking,
192
on Reform Bill,
208
visits Charlotte at Roe Head,
208
teaches Sunday school,
213
and Ellen Nussey's visit,
227
229
excitability,
227
painting and art,
227
248
287
on visit to Bolton Abbey,
230
supposed atheism,
239
Charlotte portrays in ‘Angrian' writings,
242
245
musical activities,
246
432
434
portraits,
250
287
341
plans to enter Royal Academy in London,
261
268
271
285
339
London venture,
263
drinking,
267
356
374
553
586
605
609
618
627
642
666
masonic career,
267
287
374
poetry,
269
285
307
387
437
468
509
545
554
558
577
580
605
621
writes to Blackwood's Magazine,
270
282
285
305
470
490
plans for continental study tour,
285
287
boxing,
286
writes to Wordsworth,
305
collects works into notebook,
307
forms Haworth Operative Conservative Society,
308
political views,
307
disputes with Haworth Dissenters,
311
in 1837 election campaign,
314
writes life of W.H. Warner,
337
establishes portrait studio in Bradford,
339
348
returns to Haworth from Bradford,
353
357
debts,
355
356
606
666
life and friends in Bradford,
355
appearance,
357
390
407
Liverpool holiday,
366
opium taking,
366
610
667
as tutor to Postlethwaite children,
373
386
translations of Horace,
388
392
writes to De Quincey and Hartley Coleridge,
388
dismissed by Postlethwaite,
390
supposed natural child,
390
579
and Mary Taylor,
396
works on railway,
404
430
life and friends at Luddenden Foot,
430
quarrelsomeness,
433
dismissed from railway,
434
439
poems published in newspapers,
435
467
469
558
578
618
and memorial tablet for Thomas Andrews,
464
friendship with Weightman,
466
472
474
optimism,
466
literary ambitions,
467
and Chartist unrest,
471
tutors Edmund Robinson at Thorp Green,
481
509
531
letters from Charlotte in Brussels,
494
home holidays from Thorp Green,
514
dismissed from Thorp Green post after supposed affair with Mrs Robinson,
538
551
581
visits Liverpool and North Wales with John Brown,
538
553
attempts to gain new railway appointment,
557
585
projected novel,
561
589
uses name Currer in

Brontë, Branwell –
continued
story,
566
and publication of sisters' poems,
574
Leyland's medallion portrait of,
579
marriage hopes frustrated on death of Mrs Robinson's husband,
580
605
619
unable to support sisters,
595
effect on father,
596
despair and pessimism,
604
618
sketching,
606
642
appeals to Mrs Robinson for money,
606
delirium tremens
,
618
642
666
favoured over sisters as child,
627
dissolute behaviour,
641
tuberculosis,
666
672
decline and death,
668
James Taylor's resemblance to,
791
Monckton Milnes examines papers,
963
Mrs Gaskell neglects,
978

Brontë, Charlotte: caricatures Roberson in
Shirley
,
46
poetry, 49
215
220
235
277
282
295
303
324
334
705
born and christened,
81
and birth of brother Branwell,
86
childhood in Thornton,
90
defends sisters' books,
104
678
771
in Haworth Church,
111
Haworth childhood and upbringing,
125
at Clergy Daughters' School,
138
140
144
155
158
161
167
331
and elder sisters' deaths in childhood,
158
162
leaves Clergy Daughters' School,
159
orphan heroines,
159
books and reading,
169
193
256
780
862
childhood recreations and amusements,
174
drawing and painting,
174
202
248
381
650
and music,
174
203
juvenile writing and collaborations with Branwell,
175
185
209
215
219
232
235
246
289
333
338
349
394
satirizes Branwell's writing,
190
learns French,
193
writes to father,
194
and father's ill health,
195
508
attends Roe Head School,
198
210
appearance,
200
660
759
768
779
eyesight,
200
247
518
602
777 shyness,
200
206
760
weakness in grammar,
201
storytelling,
205
274
political interests and views,
206
208
258
653
818
confirmed,
211
friendships,
211
218
255
239
341
visits Nusseys at The Rydings,
211
217
career,
212
teaches sisters,
213
portrayal of heroes and heroines,
221
248
and imaginary world of Angria,
236
246
274
276
283
287
293
301
316
319
324
333
349
394
410
569
590
604
647
discouraged from piano-playing,
247
in Branwell portraits,
250
portraits by,
250
lack of optimism,
255
teaches at Roe Head,
261
271
273
284
288
295
298
333 marriage prospects,
271
529
finances and investments,
275
729
875
885
891
home leave from Roe Head,
282
depressions,
291
526
767
776
821
823
827
sense of duty,
291
visits Franks's home,
292
correspondence with Southey,
303
writes to Hartley Coleridge,
303
395
411
and Anne's illness at Roe Head,
325
religious anxieties,
329
‘hypochondria' at Heald House,
335
519
leaves Roe Head,
336
school post,
336
denies taking opium,
338
returns to teaching post,
341
quits Dewsbury Moor teaching post,
348
declines Henry Nussey's proposal of marriage,
350
381
visits Branwell in Bradford,
356
on Anne as governess to Inghams,
359
as governess to Sidgwick family,
361
Bridlington holiday with Ellen Nussey,
365
Pryce proposes to,
366
household duties,
371
and William Weightman,
380
397
403
413
422
429
uses pseudonyms,
403
as governess to White family,
411
dairy note for Anne,
420
and proposed school scheme,
422
first Brussels visit,
424
440
442
in London,
442
life and study in Brussels,
448
Brussels essays,
451
486
faith,
457
M. Heger's criticisms of writing,
459
dress,
461
795
first teaches in Brussels,
462
learns of deaths of Weightman and Aunt Branwell,
473
returns to England,
475
inheritance from Aunt Branwell,
480
529
returns alone to Brussels to teach,
480
learns German,
485
495
view on genius,
487
attachment to M. Heger,
491
499
502
508
523
555
602
672
confesses and considers Catholic conversion,
497
505
820
leaves Brussels,
501
unsettled state on return to Haworth,
508
512
514
523
528
proposes opening school in parsonage,
516
writes to M. Heger,
518
523
556
literary ambitions,
519
564
self-pity,
519
712
1138 INDEX Brontë, Branwell –
continued
apprehensions about future,
527
visits Hathersage,
532
549
and Branwell's dismissal from Thorp Green,
539
553
555
discovers Emily's poetry notebook,
564
567
571
identity and pseudonym (‘Currer Bell'),
565
651
716
718
727
poems published pseudonymously,
566
571
579
587
and Branwell's rejection by Mrs Robinson,
582
585
novelwriting,
589
614
640
644
690
709
Nicholls' supposed interest in,
595
626
and father's cataract operation,
597
603
on Branwell's debts,
607
and Branwell's decline,
609
615
667
literary earnings,
622
876
refuses to revise manuscripts,
623
715
932
on Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell
Hall
,
626
and Emily's second (uncompleted) novel),
630
636
on Jane Austen,
646
literary critical comments,
649
and condition of women,
656
visits Smith, Elder and admits identity as ‘Currer Bell',
657
attends Opera in London,
649
entertained by George Smith in London,
661
cost of London trip,
663
and Branwell's death,
668
and Emily's illness and death, 673
679
and Anne's final illness,
685
693
695
and Anne's dying trip to Scarborough,
694
and Anne's death and funeral,
701
grief at loss of brother and sisters,
705
returns to Haworth from Scarborough and Bridlington,
705
on women's right to work,
710
social snobbery,
722
theatre-going,
730
799
857
correspondence and relations with George Smith,
736
762
765
785
805
811
862
identity revealed locally,
793
visits Kay Shuttleworths at Gawthorpe Hall,
746
stays at Smith home in London,
755
734
795
841
at House of Commons,
756
hairpiece,
759
social awkwardness,
759
George Richmond portrait of,
760
766
919
937
trip to Edinburgh with George Smith,
762
biographical notice of sisters,
772
777 revises sisters' poetry,
773
character analyses and perception,
779
anti- Catholic sentiments,
781
800
visits Harriet Martineau at Ambleside,
783
declines marriage proposal from James Taylor,
789
visits phrenologist with Smith,
803
visits Mrs Gaskell in Manchester,
804
fears suffering from consumption,
812
illnesses,
813
862
mercury poisoning,
814
Filey holiday,
822
Arthur Nicholls proposes to,
837
863
breach with Ellen Nussey,
868
engagement to Arthur Nicholls,
868
882
883
visits Scotland and Ilkley,
869
walks round parsonage table,
873
Hornsea holiday with Mrs Wooler,
875
crushed by George Smith's engagement,
876
resumes interest in Nicholls,
878
marriage settlement,
890
wedding and honeymoon,
893
thrown from horse,
896
married life,
897
902
Arthur urges caution in letters to Ellen Nussey,
900
health improves after marriage,
902
pregnancy and illness,
907
makes will,
908
death,
911
tributes, 916 in Mrs Gaskell's biography,
977