FOR FURTHER READING
Charlotte Bronte
CORRESPONDENCE
Barker, Juliet, ed. The Brontës: A
Life in Letters. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002. This
readily available paperback edition is an excellent starter for
those interested in exploring the Brontës’ correspondence.
Smith, Margaret, ed. The Letters of
Charlotte Brontë. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995-2004.
This long-awaited, scrupulously annotated edition is the most
reliable source of Charlotte Brontë’s letters.
Wise, T. J., and J. A. Symington, eds.
The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships, and
Correspondence. 1932; 4 vols., Philadelphia: Porcupine Press,
1980. Although sometimes unreliable, this remains the most
comprehensive source of letters by and to the Brontës.
WORKS
Alexander, Christine, ed. An Edition of the
Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë. 2 vols. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1987—1991.The most comprehensive collection of the
juvenilia.
Winnifrith, Tom, ed. The Poems of
Charlotte Brontë. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.
For those looking to venture beyond Brontë’s
prose writings.
BIOGRAPHIES
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 1995. A meticulously researched history of the
Brontë family.
Fraser, Rebecca. Charlotte Brontë. London:
Methuen London, 1988. Highly readable and reliable.
Gérin, Winifred. Charlotte Brontë: The
Evolution of Genius. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. A watershed
biography that remains unsurpassed in its combination of breadth of
coverage and critical insight.
Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Brontë: A
Passionate Life. New York: W W Norton, 1995. A perceptive,
impressionistic bio-critical account.
CRITICISM
Allot, Miriam, ed. The Brontës: The
Critical Heritage. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1974. Contemporary reactions to Brontë’s work.
Moglen, Helene. Charlotte Brontë: The
Self Conceived. New York: Norton, 1976. Shuttleworth, Sally.
Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology. Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
OTHER
Alexander, Christine, and Margaret Smith, eds.
The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003. A remarkably detailed and scholarly
compendium of facts relating to the Brontës’ lives and works.
Pollard, Arthur. The Landscape of the
Brontës. New York: E. P Dutton, 1988. Contains a trove of
photographs illustrating places the Brontës lived, visited, and
featured in their novels.
Elizabeth Gaskell
CORRESPONDENCE
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs.
Gaskell. Edited by J. A. V Chapple and Arthur Pollard.
Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1966.
BIOGRAPHIES
Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell. London
and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979.
Uglow, Jenny. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of
Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1993. Detailed and
engaging bio-critical study.
CRITICISM
D’Albertis, Deirdre. Dissembling Fictions:
Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Easson, Angus. Elizabeth Gaskell: The
Critical Heritage. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. A
collection of contemporary reviews of Gaskell’s work.
Other Works Cited in the Introduction
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847. New
York and London: Norton, 1987. . Villette. 1853. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1990.