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  THE KEY TO THE
  BRONTE WORKS.




  THE KEY TO THE
  BRONTE WORKS

  THE KEY TO CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S "WUTHERING HEIGHTS,"
  "JANE EYRE," AND HER OTHER WORKS.

  SHOWING THE METHOD OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND THEIR
  RELATION TO THE FACTS AND PEOPLE OF HER LIFE.


  BY
  JOHN MALHAM-DEMBLEBY.


  London and Felling-on-Tyne:
  THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD.
  NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE.
  1911.

  _All Rights Reserved._




CONTENTS.


  CHAP.                                                     PAGE

     I. OUTLINE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S LIFE                    13

    II. ORIGIN OF THE CANDLE-BEARING BEDSIDE VISITANT AND
          THE UNCOUTH SERVANT IN "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" AND
          "JANE EYRE"                                         20

   III. ORIGIN OF THE FOUNDLING HEATHCLIFFE AND HIS NAME
          IN "WUTHERING HEIGHTS"--ORIGIN OF THE INSANE
          LADY AND THE WHITE VEIL SCENE IN "JANE EYRE"        33

    IV. A RAINY DAY IN CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S CHILDHOOD:
          THE OPENING INCIDENT IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
          OF THE HEROINES OF "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" AND
          "JANE EYRE"                                         37

     V. CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S FRIEND, TABITHA AYKROYD, THE
          BRONTES' SERVANT, AS MRS. DEAN OF "WUTHERING
          HEIGHTS," AND AS BESSIE AND HANNAH OF "JANE EYRE"   43

    VI. CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S CHILD APPARITION IN "THE
          PROFESSOR," "WUTHERING HEIGHTS," AND "JANE EYRE"    52

   VII. THE ORIGINALS OF GIMMERTON, GIMMERDEN, GIMMERTON
          KIRK AND CHAPEL, PENISTON CRAGS, THE FAIRY CAVE,
          ETC., IN