The Brontes

<p>The <i>Critical Heritage</i> gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.</p> Introduction; Note on the Text; Part 1 The critical reputation of the ‘brothers Bell’, 1846–53; Chapter 1 Poems by Currer, Ellis And Acton Bell; Chapter 2 The Novels of ‘Currer Bell’ 1947–53, Jane Eyre; Chapter 3 Shirley; Chapter 4 Villette; Chapter 5 The Novels of ‘Ellis and Acton Bell’, 1847–8, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey; Chapter 6 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Part 2 The Brontës in the 1850s; Chapter 7 Sydney Dobell on ‘Currer Bell’ and Wuthering Heights, Palladium; Chapter 8 Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey; Chapter 9 Mrs Gaskell’s the Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857); Part 3 Judgments and opinions, 1858–99; Chapter 10 ;