Bibliography

Publications dealing with the manuscript:

Brontë, Charlotte. The Secret and Lily Hart: Two Tales. Edited and transcribed by William Holz. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978.

-----. An Edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë. Vol. II, part 1. Edited by Christine Alexander. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1991. 269-315.

http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=1526-4211%28194712%292%3A3%3C177%3AACOBMI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7

Christian, Mildred G. “A Census of Brontë Manuscripts in the United States. Part One.” Trollopian 2, no. 3 (Dec. 1947): 190.
Link to the article on J-STOR

Other publications:

Alexander, Christine. “‘That Kingdom of Gloom’: Charlotte Brontë, the Annuals, and the Gothic.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 47, no. 4 (March 1993): 409-436.
Link to the article on J-STOR

-----. The Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë. New York: Prometheus, 1983.

Glen, Heather, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Ratchford, Fannie. Legends of Angria: Compiled from the Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933.

-----. The Brontës’ Web of Childhood. New York: Russell & Russell, 1964.

Smith, Margaret. The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, with a selection of letters by family and friends. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Williams, Meg Harris. “Book Magic: Aesthetic Conflicts in Charlotte Brontë’s Juvenilia.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 42, no. 1 (June 1987): 29-45.
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Other resources in MU Libraries may be found by searching MERLIN under these subject headings:

Brontë, Charlotte

Brontë Family

Web Resources

Literature Online: Charlotte Brontë
Searchable texts of Charlotte Brontë's writings, journal articles, criticism, reference works, biography, etc.

Writings of Charlotte Brontë available online
Includes Jane Eyre, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor

The Brontë Society and the Haworth Parsonage Museum
The home of the Brontës is now a research library and museum supported by the Brontë Society. Most of Charlotte Brontë’s other childhood manuscripts are located at this library.

Victorian Web: Charlotte Brontë Overview
Examinations of Charlotte Brontë’s work within the literature, history and culture of the Victorian era.

The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell was an acquaintance of Charlotte Brontë and wrote her first biography shortly after Charlotte’s death. The text, now out of copyright, is available online in several places:
http://www.online-literature.com/elizabeth_gaskell/charlotte_bronte/
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Charlotte.html
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1827 (vol. 1)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1700 (vol. 2)

Haworth Village
The website of the town where the Brontës lived, with local history and views of the parsonage and the moors that so inspired the authors.