Brontës (227 page)

Brontë, Eleanor (or Alice;
née
McClory; Patrick's mother),
2
129

Brontë, Elizabeth (Patrick's second daughter): born,
70
baptism,
76
and birth of Branwell,
86
life in Thornton,
90
schooling,
136
141
148
158
163
illness and death,
159

Brontë, Emily (Jane): birth and baptism,
90
attempts at gardening,
113
at Clergy Daughters' School,
140
154
158
childhood,
150
174
and eldest sisters' deaths,
158
leaves school,
160
books and reading,
171
lessons in art and music,
174
juvenile writing,
177
180
185
188
316
337
369
imaginary world (Gondal),
178
224
272
300
316
425
463
485
512
534
568
604
sabotages Branwell's book,
208
lacks friends,
211
Ellen Nussey describes,
226
self-cauterizes dog bite,
230
piano-playing,
247
portrait by Branwell,
250
on life at Haworth Parsonage,
257
315
attends Roe Head School,
261
271
returns home from Roe Head,
274
poetry,
293
307
321
344
369
426
512
564
567
diary papers,
315
419
534
drawings,
315
influenced by Scott,
318
classical studies,
337
teaching post at Law Hill,

Brontì, Emily (Jane) –
continued
342
357
ill-health,
343
357
630
673
678
returns home from Law Hill,
357
tolerance of Branwell,
371
household duties,
371
502
508
517
534
556
receives Valentine from Weightman,
380
contentment at home,
420
and proposed school scheme,
422
stay in Brussels with Charlotte,
425
428
440
442
446
485
life and study in Brussels,
448
French essays,
451
essay on cats,
452
supposed misanthropy,
455
M. Heger praises,
460
unsociable behaviour,
460
463
dress,
461
teaches in Brussels,
462
learns of deaths of Weightman and Aunt Branwell,
473
returns to England,
475
inheritance from Aunt Branwell,
480
529
unaffected by Brussels stay, 484 letter from Charlotte in Brussels,
497
death of cat,
515
visits York with Anne,
530
letter to Ellen Nussey in Hathersage,
534
depression,
535
lacks concern for sisters,
537
and Branwell's return from Thorp Green,
555
Charlotte finds notebook of poems,
564
567
571
pseudonym (Ellis Bell),
565
poems published pseudonymously,
567
574
579
586
novel-writing,
590
629
640
683
and father's cataract operation,
597
secrecy over authorship identity,
651
657
664
death and funeral,
679
portrayed in
Shirley
,
723
Charlotte writes biographical notice of,
772
Charlotte revises poetry,
773
Mrs Gaskell's biography of Charlotte,
977

Brontë, Hugh (Patrick's father),
2

Brontë, Hugh (Patrick's brother),
3
503
851
926

Brontë, Maria (
née
Branwell): courtship and engagement,
26
54
58
fondness for Penzance,
57
moves to Yorkshire,
58
marriage,
64
children,
68
70
81
85
89
99
friendship with Firth family,
75
writing,
79
settles at Haworth,
115
illness and death,
117
dress,
124
effect of death on children,
127
books and reading,
169
Methodist upbringing,
291
328
Charlotte reads Patrick's letters from,
745
Canadian correspondent recalls,
787
Mrs Gaskell secures letters for Charlotte biography,
927
The Advantages of Poverty, In Religious Concerns (unpublished),
79

Brontë, Maria (Patrick's first daughter): birth,
68
86
90
childhood and Haworth,
127
schooling,
136
141
148
155
193
ill-health,
156
158
portrayed in
Jane Eyre
,
156
601
death,
158
161

Brontë, Patrick: at Cambridge University (St John's College), 1
7
surname, 1
7
79
origins, background and education,
2
religious beliefs,
5
9
49 finances at Cambridge,
10
academic prizes and awards,
11
enrols in militia,
13
degree,
15
ordination and first curacy (Wethersfield),
16
moves to Colchester,
20
romance with Mary Burder,
22
courts Maria,
26
55
58
Wellington curacy,
27
Dewsbury curacy,
33
37
offered post in Martinique,
33
Sunday schools,
38
53
69
85
113
213
rescues boy from river,
39
character and behaviour,
40
Hartshead living,
41
50
54
69
literary endeavours and publications,
46
66
76
87
282
307
and Luddite riots,
52
marriage,
64
children,
68
70
81
85
99
love of nature,
67
missionary interests,
69
perpetual curate of Thornton,
719
73
99
preaching,
75
81
90
95
112
151
151
611
959
and social unrest,
84
102
167
political sentiments and activities,
85
88
128
182
207
254
259
308
313
471
nominated to Haworth,
90
99
appointed to perpetual curacy of Haworth,
100
financial anxieties,
99
120
165
793
at Haworth Parsonage,
114
fear of fire,
114
ministry at Haworth,
115
and Maria's death,
117
proposes to Elizabeth Firth,
121
Mrs Gaskell portrays,
123
281
768
874
929
934
942
947
961
978
and children's upbringing,
124
127
134
150
supposed eccentricities,
124
225
943
947
remarriage attempts,
130
and children's schooling,
135
148
154
163
and moorland bog-burst,
150
and deaths of two elder daughters,
158
161
books and reading,
169
educates children,
168
170
174
membership of Keighley Mechanics' Institute library,
171
supports Catholic Emancipation,
182
207
criticizes criminal code,
184
194
letter from Brontë, Emily (Jane) –
continued
Charlotte,
194
ill-health,
195
252
345
507
595
610
712
752
792
812
869
882
885
897
and Roe Head school,
199
Ellen Nussey on,
226
228
keeps loaded pistol,
225
musical interests,
244
buys piano,
247
lectures in Keighley,
248
pictures,
248
curates,
252
280
347
365
371
502
522
campaigns for local reforms,
253
259
384
514
793
disputes with Dissenters,
253
260
278
298
347
370
417
504
507
campaigns for magistrate,
278
and church rate,
278
298
310
347
370
384
416
440
464
503
parish duties,
280
508
596
880
and Charlotte's urge to write,
282
and poor law reform,
307
311
and return home of children,
357
invited to Upperwood House,
415
accompanies Charlotte and Emily to Brussels,
442
anti-Catholicism,
504
and Irish religious unrest,
504
and national education,
505
612
eyesight,
508
519
521
573
595
825
862
and Charlotte's scheme for parsonage school,
516
and Branwell's dismissal from Thorp Green,
528
555
supports proposed new railway,
557
demands on daughters,
595
and Branwell's decline,
596
641
667
cataract operation and recovery of sight,
597
603
611
advocates ether as anaesthetic,
613
learns of Charlotte's literary success,
644
knows of daughters' authorship identity,
663
meets Grundy in Haworth,
667
and Branwell's death,
669
and Emily's decline,
675
and Anne's illness,
686
693
supports Anne's wish for dying trip to Scarborough,
697
and Anne's death,
701
and Charlotte's absence in Scarborough,
704
and James Taylor's visit,
713
hymn of faith,
738
and portraits in
Shirley
,
739
gives wife's letters to Charlotte to read,
745
and health conditions in Haworth,
750
at anniversary of Haworth Mechanics' Institute,
751
and Charlotte's absence in London and Edinburgh,
463
anxiety over Charlotte's health,
764
Lady Kay Shuttleworth describes,
768
appearance in old age,
778
opposes papal aggression in England,
781
favours James Taylor,
791
and Morgan's departure for Bradford,
808
liking for Margaret Wooler,
809
suffers stroke,
825
hostility to Nicholls after proposal to Charlotte,
837
843
855
859
863
869
877
888
gives favourable reference for Nicholls,
846
pride in Charlotte's books,
850
and Nicholls' departure from Haworth,
861
suffers second stroke and temporary blindness,
862
agrees to Nicholls' visits to Charlotte,
868
and Mrs Gaskell's visit to Haworth,
870
sanctions Charlotte's marriage to Nicholls,
882
884
provided for in Charlotte's marriage settlement,
891
and Charlotte's wedding,
894
excluded from Charlotte's will,
908
letter to Kay Shuttleworth,
908
and Charlotte's illness and death,
910
and reports on Charlotte's death,
917
and public reaction to Charlotte's death,
918
grief at loss of Charlotte,
923
and Mrs Gaskell's biography of Charlotte,
925
935
940
947
952 will,
925
defends himself to Mrs Gaskell,
934
and Harriet Martineau,
950
public perception of,
956
961
in old age,
957
christens Greenwood's child,
964
health decline,
963
Mrs Gaskell visits in old age,
946
death and funeral,
967
The
Cottage in the Wood,
77
282
961
Cottage Poems,
48
66
78
The Maid of
Killarney
,
87
112
135
184
‘On Conversation',
77
The Rural Minstrel
(poems),
66
The Signs of the Times,
254
260
‘A Tract for the Times',
781
Winter Evening Thoughts,
47

Brontë, William (Patrick's brother),
4

Brooke (mill owner of Dewsbury),
69

Brooke, Leah,
214
343

Brooke, Maria (
née
Patchett),
343
403

Brooke, Thomas,
358

Brooke, Revd Titus Senior,
343

Brooke family,
199

Brookfield, Mrs,
759

Broughton-in-Furness,
375
386
391

Brown, Dr A.,
11

Brown, Eliza,
968

Brown John: and Branwell's drinking,
374
642
friendship and correspondence with Branwell,
376
389
and church rate controversy,
418
and Andrews' memorial tablet,
464
Branwell visits Liverpool with,
538
533
and Branwell's relations with Mrs Robinson,
541
letters to Midgeley