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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 3|1 pages
W. A. Butler, from an unsigned notice, Dublin University Magazine
October 1846, xxviii, 383–91
part |50 pages
The Novels of ‘Currer Bell' 1947–53
chapter 14|4 pages
G. H. Lewes, from an unsigned review, Fraser's Magazine
December 1847, xxxvi, 686–95
chapter 19|2 pages
John Eagles, from an unsigned notice, Blackwood's Magazine
October 1848, lxiv, 459–74
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 33|5 pages
Eugène Forçade, from an article, Revue des deux mondes
15 November 1849, tome 4, 714–35
part |46 pages
Villette
chapter 54|6 pages
Anne Mozley, from an unsigned review, Christian Remembrancer
April 1853, n.s. xxv, 401–43
part |32 pages
The Novels of ‘Ellis and Acton Bell', 1847–8
chapter 65|7 pages
G. W. Peck, from an unsigned review of Wuthering Heights, American Review
June 1848, vii, 572–85
chapter 69|2 pages
E. P. Whipple on Wuthering Heights from ‘Novels of the Season', North American Reveiw
October 1848, cxli, 354–69
part |26 pages
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
chapter 75|2 pages
E. P. Whipple from ‘Novels of the Season' North American Reveiw
October 1848, cxli, 354–69
chapter 78|5 pages
Charles Kingsley, from an unsigned review, Fraser's Magazine
April 1849, xxxix, 417–32
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 90|4 pages
Margaret Oliphant, from an unsigned article, Blackwood's Magazine
May 1855, lxxvii, 557–9
chapter 91|3 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘Thackeray and Currer Bell', Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
June 1856, 328–32
chapter 93|8 pages
Peter Bayne on ‘Ellis, Acton and Currer Bell', Essays in Biography and Criticism
1857
part |58 pages
Mrs Gaskell's the Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)
chapter 99|6 pages
E. S. Dallas, from an unsigned review, Blackwood's Magazine
July 1857, lxxxii, 77–94
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 105|2 pages
Margaret Oliphant on ‘sensational' novels, Blackwood's Magazine
September 1867, cii, 257–80