ABSTRACT

The Critical Heritage 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.

chapter |55 pages

Introduction

chapter |1 pages

Note on the Text

part I|218 pages

The critical reputation of the ‘brothers Bell', 1846–53

part |8 pages

Poems by Currer, Ellis And Acton Bell

chapter 1|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Critic

4 July 1846, 6–8

chapter 2|2 pages

From an unsigned notice, Athenaeum

4 July 1846, 68a

chapter 3|1 pages

W. A. Butler, from an unsigned notice, Dublin University Magazine

October 1846, xxviii, 383–91

chapter 4|3 pages

From an unsigned notice, Spectator

11 November 1848, xxi, 1094–5

part |50 pages

The Novels of ‘Currer Bell' 1947–53

chapter 5|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Atlas

23 October 1847, 719

chapter 6|1 pages

Thackeray, from a letter

23 October 1847

chapter 7|2 pages

H. F. Chorley, unsigned review, Athenaeum

23 October 1847, 1100–1

chapter 8|1 pages

From an unsigned review, Critic

30 October 1847, 277–8

chapter 9|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Spectator

6 November 1847, xx, 1074–5

chapter 10|2 pages

A. W. Fonblanque, from an unsigned review, Examiner

27 November 1847, 756–7

chapter 11|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Era

14 November 1847, 9

chapter 12|2 pages

From an unsigned review, People's Journal

November 1847

chapter 13|1 pages

J. G. Lockhart, from a letter

29 December 1847

chapter 14|4 pages

G. H. Lewes, from an unsigned review, Fraser's Magazine

December 1847, xxxvi, 686–95

chapter 15|1 pages

G. H. Lewes, unsigned notice, Westminster Review

January 1848, xlviii, 581–4

chapter 16|4 pages

From an unsigned review, Christian Remembrancer

April 1848, xv, 396–409

chapter 17|1 pages

George Eliot, from a letter

11 June 1848

chapter 18|2 pages

Mary Taylor, from a letter

24 July 1848

chapter 19|2 pages

John Eagles, from an unsigned notice, Blackwood's Magazine

October 1848, lxiv, 459–74

chapter 20|3 pages

‘Novels of the Season', North American Review

October 1848, cxli, 354–69

chapter 21|5 pages

Eugène Forçade, from a review, Revue des deux mondes

31 October 1848, tome 4, 471–94

chapter 22|8 pages

Elizabeth Rigby, from an unsigned, review, Quarterly Review

December 1848, lxxxiv, 153–85

chapter 23|4 pages

James Lorimer, from an unsigned review, North British Review

August 1849, xi, 455–93

part |54 pages

Shirley

chapter 24|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Daily News

31 October 1849, 2

chapter 25|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Atlas

3 November 1849, 696–7

chapter 26|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Athenaeum

3 November 1849, 1107–9

chapter 27|5 pages

Albany Fonblanque, from an unsigned review, Examiner

3 November 1849, 692–4

chapter 28|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Spectator

3 November 1849, xxii, 1043–5

chapter 30|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Weekly Chronicle

10 November 1849, 3

chapter 31|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Britannia

10 November 1849, 714–15

chapter 32|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Critic

15 November 1849, 519–21

chapter 33|5 pages

Eugène Forçade, from an article, Revue des deux mondes

15 November 1849, tome 4, 714–35

chapter 34|1 pages

Catherine Winkworth, from a letter

5 December 1849

chapter 35|4 pages

From an unsigned review, The Times

7 December 1849

chapter 36|4 pages

From an unsigned review, Fraser's Magazine

December 1849, xl, 691–4

chapter 37|2 pages

Unsigned notice, Church of England Quarterly Review

January 1850, xxvii, 224–5

chapter 38|2 pages

Unsigned notice, Westminster Review

January 1850, lii, 407–19

chapter 39|10 pages

G. H. Lewes, from an unsigned review, Edinburgh Review

January 1850, xci, 153–73

chapter 40|1 pages

Tom Arnold, from a letter

15 August 1851

part |46 pages

Villette

chapter 41|4 pages

Harriet Martineau, from an unsigned review, Daily News

3 February 1853, 2

chapter 42|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Examiner

5 February 1853, 84–5

chapter 43|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Literary Gazette

5 February 1853, 123–5

chapter 44|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Spectator

12 February 1853, 155–6

chapter 45|3 pages

G. H. Lewes, from an unsigned review, Leader

12 February 1853, 163–4

chapter 46|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Athenaeum

12 February 1853, 186–8

chapter 47|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Critic

15 February 1853, xii, 94–5

chapter 48|1 pages

George Eliot, letters

February and March 1853

chapter 49|2 pages

From an unsigned notice, Guardian

23 February 1853, 128–9

chapter 50|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review

March 1853, n.s. v, 305–20

chapter 51|2 pages

Thackeray, letters

March and April 1853

chapter 52|2 pages

Eugène Forçade, from a review, Revue des deux mondes

15 March 1853, tome 1084–96

chapter 53|1 pages

Matthew Arnold, from a letter

14 April 1853

chapter 54|6 pages

Anne Mozley, from an unsigned review, Christian Remembrancer

April 1853, n.s. xxv, 401–43

chapter 55|4 pages

G. H. Lewes, ‘Ruth' and ‘Villette', Westminster Review

April 1853, ii, 485–91

chapter 56|5 pages

‘Villette' and ‘Ruth', Putnam’s Monthly Magazine

May 1853, i, 535–9

part |32 pages

The Novels of ‘Ellis and Acton Bell', 1847–8

chapter 57|1 pages

Unsigned notice, Spectator

18 December 1847, xx, 1217

chapter 58|2 pages

Unsigned review, Athenaeum

25 December 1847, 1324–5

chapter 59|3 pages

From an unsigned review of Wuthering Heights, Examiner

January 1848, 21–2

chapter 60|4 pages

From an unsigned review of Wuthering Heights, Britannia

15 January 1848, 42–3

chapter 62|1 pages

Unsigned notice, New Monthly Magazine

January 1848, lxxxii, 140

chapter 63|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Atlas

22 January 1848, 59

part |26 pages

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

chapter 70|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Spectator

8 July 1848, xxi, 662–3

chapter 71|1 pages

From an unsigned review, Athenaeum

July 8 1848, 670–1

chapter 73|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Examiner

29 July 1848, 483–4

chapter 74|4 pages

From an unsigned review, Literary World

12 August 1848

chapter 75|2 pages

E. P. Whipple from ‘Novels of the Season' North American Reveiw

October 1848, cxli, 354–69

chapter 76|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Sharpe's London Magazine

August 1848, vii, 181–4

chapter 77|3 pages

From an unsigned review, ‘Mr Bell's New Novel', Rambler

September 1848, iii, 65–6

chapter 78|5 pages

Charles Kingsley, from an unsigned review, Fraser's Magazine

April 1849, xxxix, 417–32

chapter 79|1 pages

Charlotte Brontë on Anne Brontë

September 1850

part II|112 pages

The Brontës in the 1850s

chapter 80|7 pages

Sydney Dobell on ‘Currer Bell' and Wuthering Heights, Palladium

September 1850, 161–75

part |45 pages

Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey

chapter 82|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Examiner

21 December 1850, 815

chapter 83|3 pages

G. H. Lewes, from an unsigned review, Leader

28 December 1850, 953

chapter 84|2 pages

From an unsigned review, Athenaeum

28 December 1850, 1368–9

chapter 85|3 pages

From an unsigned review, Eclectic Review

February 1851, 5th series, 223–7

chapter 86|1 pages

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letters

1850–3

chapter 87|1 pages

D. G. Rossetti, from a letter

1854

chapter 89|5 pages

Matthew Arnold, ‘Haworth churchyard', Fraser's Magazine

May 1855, li, 527–30

chapter 90|4 pages

Margaret Oliphant, from an unsigned article, Blackwood's Magazine

May 1855, lxxvii, 557–9

chapter 92|3 pages

Elizabeth Gaskell on The Professor

August–October 1856

part |58 pages

Mrs Gaskell's the Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)

chapter 94|2 pages

G. H. Lewes, letter

April 1857

chapter 95|12 pages

John Skelton, from an unsigned review, Fraser's Magazine

May 1857, lv, 569–82

chapter 96|1 pages

Charles Kingsley, letter

14 May 1857

chapter 97|2 pages

From an unsigned review of The Professor, Athenaeum

13 June 1857, 755–7

chapter 98|12 pages

W. C. Roscoe, from an unsigned review, National Review

June 1857, v, 127–64

chapter 99|6 pages

E. S. Dallas, from an unsigned review, Blackwood's Magazine

July 1857, lxxxii, 77–94

chapter 100|7 pages

From an unsigned review, Christian Remembrancer

July 1857, n.s., xcvii, 87–145

chapter 101|1 pages

From Caroline Fox's Journals

9 July 1837

chapter 102|7 pages

Émile Montégut, from an article, Revue des deux mondes

1 July 1857, tome 4, 139–84

chapter 103|8 pages

Margaret Sweat, from an unsigned review, North American Review

October 1857, lxxxv, 293–329

part III|74 pages

Judgments and opinions, 1858–99

chapter 104|1 pages

Queen Victoria on Jane Eyre

1858 and 1880

chapter 105|2 pages

Margaret Oliphant on ‘sensational' novels, Blackwood's Magazine

September 1867, cii, 257–80

chapter 106|5 pages

‘The life and writings of Emily Brontë', Galaxy

February 1873, 226–38

chapter 107|7 pages

T. W. Reid on the Brontës

1877

chapter 109|10 pages

Leslie Stephen on Charlotte Brontë, Comhill Magazine

December 1877, 723–9

chapter 110|8 pages

Peter Bayne on the Brontës

1881

chapter 112|6 pages

Swinburne on Emily Brontë, Athenaeum

16 June 1883, 762–3

chapter 114|1 pages

Walter Pater on Emily Brontë

1889

chapter 115|2 pages

Angus Mackay on Emily Brontë, Westminster Review

August 1898, c, 217–18

chapter 116|13 pages

Mary Ward on Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë

1899–1900