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The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Volume 2
by ELIZABETH CLAGHORN GASKELL
CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO
* CHAPTER I. Mr. Bronte afflicted with blindness, and relieved by a successful operation for cataract--Charlotte Bronte's first work of fiction, "The Professor"--She commences "Jane Eyre"--Circumstances attending its composition--Her ideas of a heroine--Her attachment to home--Haworth in December--A letter of confession and counsel.
* CHAPTER II. State of Charlotte Bronte's health at the commencement of 1847-- Family trials--"Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey" accepted by a publisher--"The Professor" rejected--Completion of "Jane Eyre", its reception and publication--The reviews of "Jane Eyre", and the author's comments on them--Her father's reception of the book--Public interest excited by "Jane Eyre"--Dedication of the second edition to Mr. Thackeray--Correspondence of Currer Bell with Mr. Lewes on "Jane Eyre"--Publication of "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey"--Miss Bronte's account of the authoress of "Wuthering Heights"--Domestic anxieties of the Bronte sisters--Currer Bell's correspondence with Mr. Lewes--Unhealthy state of Haworth--Charlotte Bronte on the revolutions of 1848--Her repudiation of authorship--Anne Bronte's second tale, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"--Misunderstanding as to the individuality of the three Bells, and its results--Currer and Acton Bell visit London--Charlotte Bronte's account of her visit--The Chapter Coffee House--The Clergy Daughters' School at Casterton--Death of Branwell Bronte--Illness and death of Emily Bronte.
* CHAPTER III The Quarterly Review on "Jane Eyre"--Severe illness of Anne Bront