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Eminent Women Series

Edited by John H. Ingram

EMILY BRONTE

All Rights Reserved.




EMILY BRONTE

by

A. MARY F. ROBINSON

Second Edition.







London:
W. H. Allen and Co.
13, Waterloo Place
1883.

[All Rights Reserved]

London:
Printed by W. H. Allen and Co., 13 Waterloo Place. S.W.




CONTENTS.

                                                          PAGE

  Introduction                                               1

  CHAPTER I.
    Parentage                                                8

  CHAPTER II.
    Babyhood                                                18

  CHAPTER III.
    Cowan's Bridge                                          28

  CHAPTER IV.
    Childhood                                               40

  CHAPTER V.
    Going to School                                         53

  CHAPTER VI.
    Girlhood at Haworth                                     61

  CHAPTER VII.
    In the Rue d'Isabelle                                   77

  CHAPTER VIII.
    A Retrospect                                            92

  CHAPTER IX.
    The Recall                                             103

  CHAPTER X.
    The Prospectuses                                       111

  CHAPTER XI.
    Branwell's Fall                                        116

  CHAPTER XII.
    Writing Poetry                                         128

  CHAPTER XIII.
    Troubles                                               144

  CHAPTER XIV.
    Wuthering Heights: its Origin                          154

  CHAPTER XV.
    Wuthering Heights: the Story                           168

  CHAPTER XVI.
    'Shirley'                                              209

  CHAPTER XVII.
    Branwell's End                                         217

  CHAPTER XVIII.
    Emily's Death                                          223

  FINIS!                                                   233


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LIST OF AUTHORITIES.


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