14.Carne, John, Letters From the East, p. 426
Chapter 5
1.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 49
2.Ibid.
3.Barnard, Louise and Barnard, Robert, A Brontë Encyclopedia, p. 108
4.Hardie-Budden, Melissa, ‘Maternal Forebears of the Brontë Archive: ‘Nothing Comes from Nothing’; or Stories from Another Canon’, Brontë Studies 2015, Volume 40, Issue 4, p. 273
5.Hardie-Budden, Melissa, Penzance 2000, p. 64
6.Wesley, John, The Heart of John Wesley’s Journal, p. 299
7.Dobree, Bonamy, John Wesley, p. 80
8.Greenwood, Robin, West Lane and Hall Green Baptist Churches in Haworth in West Yorkshire, their Early History and Doctrinal Distinctives, p. 93
9.Warren, Samuel, Chronicles of Wesleyan Methodism, p. 168
10.Kingston, Rev. John, ‘Memoirs of the Life of John Kingston, Preacher of the Gospel’, The Methodist Magazine for the Year 1799, Volume XXII, p. 209
11.Kingston, Rev. John, ‘Memoirs of the Life of John Kingston, Preacher of the Gospel’, The Methodist Magazine for the Year 1799, Volume XXII, p. 210
12.Kingston, Rev. John, ‘Memoirs of the Life of John Kingston, Preacher of the Gospel’, The Methodist Magazine for the Year 1799, Volume XXII, p. 262
13.Warren, Samuel, Chronicles of Wesleyan Methodism, p. 93
14.Elizabeth is also recorded as a witness at her sister Jane’s wedding, along with Thomas Longley, another Wesleyan preacher.
15.Davy, John, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, pp. 10-11
16.Edgerley, C. Mabel, ‘Elizabeth Branwell – The “Small, Antiquated Lady”’, Brontë Society Transactions 1937, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 105
Chapter 6
1.Colenso, William, Ancient and Modern History of Mount’s Bay, p. 56
2.Colenso, William, Ancient and Modern History of Mount’s Bay, p. 57
3.Warren, Samuel, Chronicles of Wesleyan Methodism, p. 217
4.Warren, Samuel, Chronicles of Wesleyan Methodism, p. 196
5.The other witness in the parish register of St Maddern’s church on this occasion was father of the bride, John Batten.
6.The list of Mayors of Penzance is at the Cornwall Record Office, Truro.
7.See chapter 17.
8.Kingston, Rev. John, ‘Memoirs of the Life of John Kingston, Preacher of the Gospel’, The Methodist Magazine for the Year 1799 Volume XXII, p. 264
9.Will of Thomas Branwell, Merchant of Penzance, Cornwall, Proved in the Court of Exeter, now at National Archives, Kew, London
10.See measuringworth.com for further explanations of the calculations giving £50 in 1808 a current labour value of £42,940, an economic status value of £48,810 and an economic power value of £250,000.
11.Newbold, Margaret, ‘The Branwell Saga’, Brontë Studies 2002, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 20
12.Holgate, Ivy, ‘The Branwells at Penzance’, Brontë Studies 1960, Volume 5, p. 431
13.This son, Richard Branwell Veale, was acknowledged and remembered in his father’s will.
14.Clarke, James Stanier [Ed.], The Naval Chronicle: Volume 27, January-July 1812, p. 45
15.Scruton, William, Thornton and the Brontës, pp. 69-70
16.Green, Dudley, Patrick Brontë: Father of Genius, pp. 25-6
17.The manuscript of Maria Branwell’s ‘The Advantages of Poverty in Religious Concerns’, lovingly preserved by Patrick Brontë, is now in the Brotherton Library archives, Leeds.
18.Green, Dudley, Patrick Brontë: Father of Genius, p. 63
19.Chadwick, Ellis H., In the Footsteps of the Brontës, p. 36
20.The Cornish Telegraph, 25 December 1884
Chapter 7
1.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 51
2.Newbold, Margaret, ‘The Branwell Saga’, Brontë Studies 2002, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 22
3.Newbold, Margaret, ‘The Branwell Saga’, Brontë Studies 2002, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 23
4.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Constantin Heger, 24 July 1844, ms. British Library, London
5.Green, Dudley, Patrick Brontë: Father of Genius, p. 67
6.Yates, William Walsh, The Father of the Brontës, pp. 91-2
7.Brontë, Charlotte, Shirley, p. 361
8.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 61
9.Edgerley, C. Mabel, ‘Elizabeth Branwell – The “Small, Antiquated Lady”’, Brontë Society Transactions 1937, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 106
10.Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Life Of Charlotte Brontë, p. 82
11.Whilst the book would have a considerable value simply for belonging to Maria Branwell, its huge price was thanks to two previously unseen stories in tiny script hidden within the book written by a young Charlotte Brontë.
12.According to the public information board in Thornton, supplied by Bradford council.
13.Letter from Patrick Brontë to Richard Burn, 27 January 1820, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
14.Diary of Elizabeth Firth, ms. Sheffield University Library
15.Ibid.
16.Ibid.
17.Ibid.
18.Edgerley, C. Mabel, ‘Elizabeth Branwell – The “Small, Antiquated Lady”’, Brontë Society Transactions 1937, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 106
Chapter 8
1.Green, Dudley, Patrick Brontë – Father of Genius, p. 77
2.Leeds Intelligencer, 14 June 1819
3.Archbishop Longley letters archive, Lambeth Palace, London
4.Ratchford, Fannie E., ‘The Loneliness of a Brontë Cousin’, Brontë Society Transactions 1957, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 105
5.The letter, unfortunately, no longer exists, but we know Patrick must have sent it, and the contents within it, from Elizabeth Branwell’s subsequent actions. We also know that Patrick continued to write to the Branwells in Penzance throughout his life, as Eliza Kingston wrote that she had received a letter from him in 1860.
6.Green, Dudley [Ed.], The Letters Of The Reverend Patrick Brontë, p. 43
7.Dinsdale, Ann, ‘Mrs Brontë’s Nurse’, Brontë Studies 2005, Volume 30, Issue 3, p. 258
8.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 102
9.Rhodes, Professor Philip, A Medical Appraisal of the Brontës’, Brontë Society Transactions 1972, Volume 16, Issue 2, p. 102
10.Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Life Of Charlotte Brontë, p. 87
11.Orel, Harold [Ed.], The Brontës: Interviews And Recollections, p. 143
12.Green, Dudley [Ed.], The Letters Of The Reverend Patrick Brontë, p. 43
Chapter 9
1.Barnard, Louise and Barnard, Robert, A Brontë Encyclopedia, pp. 110-1
2.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 102
3.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 103
4.Shorter, Clement, The Brontës and Their Circle, p. 38
5.Letter from Isabella Dury to Miss Mariner, 14 February 1823, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
6.Diary of Elizabeth Firth, ms. Sheffield University Library
7.Orel, Harold [Ed.], The Brontës: Interviews And Recollections, p. 25
8.Scribner’s Monthly, vol. II, issue 1, May 1871
9.Chadwick, Ellis H., In the Footsteps of the Brontës, p. 69
10.Letter from Patrick Brontë to Richard Burns, 25 August 1825
11.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 105
12.Green, Dudley [Ed.], The Letters Of The Reverend Patrick Brontë, p. 44
13.Edgerley, C. Mabel, ‘Elizabeth Branwell – The “Small, Antiquated Lady”’, Brontë Society Transactions 1937, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 107
14.Green, Dudley [Ed.], The Letters Of The Reverend Patrick Brontë, p. 54
15.The Journal Of Education, January 1900, ms. British Library, London
16.Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Life Of Charlotte Brontë, p. 108
17.Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre, p. 65
Chapter 10
1.Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Life Of Charlotte Brontë, p. 199
2.Kambani, Marianna [Ed.], The Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: the Brownings, the Brontës and the
Rossettis by Their Contemporaries, p. 147
3.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 21 March 1841, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
4.Orel, Harold [Ed.], The Brontës: Interviews And Recollections, p. 29
5.Diary paper of Emily and Anne Brontë, 24 November 1834, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
6.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 318
7.Gerin, Winifred, Anne Brontë, p. 23
8.Orel, Harold [Ed.], The Brontës: Interviews And Recollections, p. 25
9.Bottrell, William, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, pp. 169-70
10.Brontë, Charlotte, Villette, p. 373
11.du Maurier, Daphne, Vanishing Cornwall, p. 160
12.Newbold, Margaret, ‘The Branwell Saga’, Brontë Studies 2002, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 24
13.Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, p. 320
14.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 4 July 1834, ms. Huntington Library, California
15.Brontë, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, p. 5
16.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Branwell Brontë, 17 May 1832, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
Chapter 11
1.From Reminiscences of Charlotte Brontë by Ellen Nussey, Scribner’s Magazine, May 1871
2.Ibid.
3.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 13 December 1846, ms. Huntington Library, California
4.Barnard, Louise and Barnard, Robert, A Brontë Encyclopedia, p. 108
5.Alexander, Christine [Ed.], Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, p. 3
6.This teapot is now at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
7.Hardy, Robert Spence, William Grimshaw, Incumbent of Haworth, p. 42
8.Southey, Robert, The Life of Wesley, and the Rise and Progress of Methodism, p. 188
9.Orel, Harold [Ed.], The Brontës: Interviews And Recollections, p. 25
10.As confirmed by handwriting expert Jean Elliott, MBIGdip
11.Brontë Manuscript Notebook, Brotherton Library, Leeds
12.Ibid.
13.Brontë, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, p. 138
14.Letter from Patrick Brontë to Elizabeth Franks, 6 July 1835, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
15.Ibid.
16.Letter from Ellen Nussey to Elizabeth Gaskell, 15 November 1855, ms. Brotherton Library, Leeds
17.Letter from James la Trobe to William Scruton, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
18.Watson, Richard, The Life of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., pp. 51-2
19.Gerin, Winifred, Anne Brontë, p. 121
Chapter 12
1.Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Life Of Charlotte Brontë, p. 198-9
2.Diary paper of Emily and Anne Brontë, 24 November 1834, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
3.Letter from Ellen Nussey to Elizabeth Gaskell, 15 November 1857, ms. Brotherton Library, Leeds
4.Matus, Jill L. [Ed.], The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, p. 18
5.Green, Dudley [Ed.], The Letters Of The Reverend Patrick Brontë, p. 258
6.Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Life Of Charlotte Brontë, p. 199
7.Orel, Harold [Ed.], The Brontës: Interviews And Recollections, p. 25
8.Letter from Ellen Nussey to Elizabeth Gaskell, 15 November 1857, ms. Brotherton Library, Leeds
9.Edgerley, C. Mabel, ‘Elizabeth Branwell – The “Small, Antiquated Lady”’, Brontë Society Transactions 1937, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 111
10.Letter from Branwell Brontë to Francis Grundy, 25 October 1842; Smith, Margaret (Ed.), The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, Volume 1, p. 294
11.Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Life Of Charlotte Brontë, p. 94
12.This piano, now restored, can be seen in the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
13.Bradford Observer, 10 April 1834
14.Lister, Philip, Ghosts & Gravestones of Haworth, p. 12
15.Letter from Branwell Brontë to Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts, 1835, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
16.Du Maurier, Daphne, The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë, p. 47
17.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 227
Chapter 13
1.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Rev. Henry Nussey, 9 May 1841, ms. William Self collection
2.Diary paper of Anne Brontë, 30 July 1841, ms. Law collection
3.These cards are referred to in Charlotte Brontë’s letter to Ellen Nussey, 17 March 1840
4.The monument to William Weightman, paid for by the parishioners, is the largest in St Michael and All Angels’ church.
5.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 20 January 1842, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
6.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, pp. 374-5
7.Charlotte Brontë’s Roe Head Journal, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
8.Diary paper of Emily Brontë, 31 July 1841, ms. Law collection
9.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 19 July 1841, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
10.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, pp. 361
11.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Elizabeth Branwell, 29 September 1841
12.Ibid.
13.MacEwan, Helen, The Brontës in Brussels, p. 19
14.Letter from Branwell Brontë to Francis Grundy, 25 October 1842
Chapter 14
1.The 1850 General Board of Health inspection undertaken by Benjamin Herschel Babbage, showed, for example, an average age at death of 19.6 years in 1838.
2.Letter from Anne Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 26 January 1848, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
3.du Maurie, Daphne, The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë, p. 156
4.Letter from Branwell Brontë to Francis Grundy, 29 October 1842
5.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 404
6.Last will and testament of Elizabeth Branwell, 30 April 1833, ms. National Archives, London
7.Ibid
8.Ibid.
9.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Emily Brontë, 19 December 1843
10.Orel, Harold, The Brontes: Interviews And Recollections, pp. 61-62
11.Brontë, Charlotte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, ms. British Library, London
12.Ibid.
13.Hargreaves, G.D., ‘The Publishing of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell’, Brontë Society Transactions 1969, Volume 15, Issue 4, p. 294
Chapter 15
1.Hargreaves, G.D., ‘The Publishing of “Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell”’, Brontë Society Transactions 1969, Volume 15, Issue 4, p. 295
2.Athenaem, 4 July 1846
3.The autographs of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell sent to Mr. Enoch are at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
4.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Thomas de Quincey, 16 June 1847
5.Hargreaves, G.D., ‘The Publishing of “Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell”’, Brontë Society Transactions 1969, Volume 15, Issue 4, p. 298
6.Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre, pp. 337-8
7.Brontë, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, p. 104
8.Brontë Manuscript Notebook, Brotherton Library, Leeds
9.The Rambler, September 1848
10.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to W.S. Williams, 5 September 1850, ms. Princeton University, New Jersey
11.Smith, George, George Smith: a Memoir, With Some Pages of Autobiography, p. 89
12.The original Bradshaw’s timetable for this journey can be seen at the Search Engine Archives, National Railway Museum, York
13.‘A Portrait of Lydia Robinson’, Brontë Studies 1981, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 29
14.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 23 November 1848, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
15.Brontë, Anne, Agnes Grey, p. 144
16.Rhodes, Philip, A Medical Appraisal Of The Brontës’, Brontë Society Transactions 1972, Volume 16, Issue 2, p. 106
Chapter 16
1.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to W.S. Williams, 22 May 1850, ms. Princeton University, New Jersey
3.Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Life Of Charlotte Brontë, p. 379
4.Brontë, Charlotte, Shirley, pp. 461-2
5.Brontë, Charlotte, Shirley, p. 463
6.Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, p. 685
7.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Margaret Wooler, 22 September 1851
8.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 14 August 1840, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
9.Hardie-Budden, Melissa, ‘Maternal Forebears of the Brontë Archive: ‘Nothing Comes from Nothing’; or Stories from Another Canon’, Brontë Studies 2015, Volume 40, Issue 4, p. 270
10.Gerin, Winifred, Emily Brontë, p. 259
11.Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 27 May 1853, ms. Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
12.Rowe, J. Hambley, ‘The Maternal Relatives of the Brontës’, Brontë Society Transactions 1923, Volume 6, Issue 33, p. 135
13.Yorkshire Evening Post, 20 May 1942
Chapter 17
1.Kingston, Rev. John, ‘Memoirs of the Life of John Kingston, Preacher of the Gospel’, The Methodist Magazine for the Year 1799, Volume XXII, p. 209
2.Kingston, Rev. John, ‘Memoirs of the Life of John Kingston, Preacher of the Gospel’, The Methodist Magazine for the Year 1799, Volume XXII, p. 365
3.Journal of the Conference, 1807
4.Letter from Eliza Kingston to her nephew Joseph Kingston Burgster
5.Ratchford, Fannie E., ‘The Loneliness of a Brontë Cousin’, Brontë Society Transactions 1957, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 102
6.Kingston, John, The New Pocket Biographical Dictionary, Second Edition, p. iv
7.Kingston, John, The New Pocket Biographical Dictionary, Second Edition, p. 299
8.Kingston, John, The New Pocket Biographical Dictionary, Second Edition, p. 306
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