eyesight, [>], [>]–[>]
fear of fire, [>]
on Jane Eyre, [>]
medical reading and notations, [>], [>], [>], [>]
move to England, [>], [>]
name change, [>]
portrait of, [>]
storytelling and writing, [>], [>]
stroke, [>]
at wife’s death, [>]
worry about children’s support, [>], [>]
Brown, Martha, [>]
Bryce, David, [>]
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
cholera, [>]–[>]
Clergy Daughters’ School, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Coleridge, Hartley, [>]–[>]
Darwin, Charles, [>]
diary papers, [>]–[>]
Dickens, Charles, [>], [>]
“Dover Beach” (Arnold), [>]
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, [>]
factories and mills, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Fielding, Henry, [>]
Frankenstein (Shelley), [>]
Gaskell, Elizabeth, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Gondal and Angria fantasies, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
governesses in Victorian England, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Great Exhibition of 1851, London, [>]–[>], [>]
Grundy, Francis, [>], [>], [>]
Haworth village and parsonage, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Heger, Claire Zoë, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Heger, Constantin, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Humphry Clinker (Smollett), [>]
Industrial Revolution, [>]
Jane Eyre (C. Bell/Brontë)
acceptance for publication, [>]–[>]
contemporary analysis, [>]–[>]
preface to second edition, [>], [>]
reviews of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
scenes and illustration from, [>], [>], [>]
story, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
success and popularity, [>]
Law Hill school, [>], [>]–[>]
Lewes, George Henry, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
London
boastful opinion of, [>]
Great Exhibition of 1851, [>]–[>], [>]
opera-goers, [>]–[>]
theater, [>], [>]
Luddite movement, [>]
Martineau, Harriet, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Mary Barton (Gaskell), [>]
Moore, Thomas, [>]
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (Dickens), [>]
New Zealand, [>], [>]
Nicholls, Arthur Bell
after Charlotte’s death, [>]
arrival at Haworth, [>]–[>]
demand to read Charlotte’s correspondence, [>]
departure from Haworth, [>]–[>]
marriage and honeymoon, [>]–[>]
marriage proposal, [>]–[>], [>]
portrait of, [>]
return to Haworth, [>]–[>]
Nightingale, Florence, [>], [>]
Nussey, Ellen
with Anne at time of death, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
on Brontë sisters as teachers, [>]
Charlotte’s portrait of, [>]
on Charlotte’s romantic relationships, [>], [>]
correspondence with Charlotte, [>], [>]
family estate, [>]
friendship with Charlotte at school, [>]–[>]
seaside visit, [>]
visits to Haworth parsonage, [>], [>]
Nussey, Henry, [>]–[>]
Oliver Twist (Dickens), [>]–[>]
opium as medication, [>]
Pensionnat Heger school
Charlotte’s romance with teacher, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Charlotte’s studies and teaching position, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Emily’s studies and teaching position, [>]–[>], [>]
garden, [>]
Poems (C., E., and A. Bell/Brontë), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Postlethwaite family, [>]–[>]
Professor, The (C. Bell/Brontë), [>], [>], [>], [>]
pseudonyms for women writers, [>]–[>]
Rachel, Mademoiselle, [>], [>]
Rich, Adrienne, [>]
Rigby, Elizabeth, [>]–[>]
Robinson, William, [>]
Robinson family, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Roe Head School
Anne’s illness, [>]
Anne’s unhappiness, [>]
Charlottes friendships, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Charlotte’s studies, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Charlotte’s unhappiness, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Emily’s unhappiness, [>], [>]–[>]
school and pupils, [>]– [>], [>], [>], [>]
Shelley, Mary, [>]
Shirley (C. Bell/Brontë), [>]–[>]
Smith, Elder and Company publisher, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Smith, George, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Smollett, Tobias, [>]
Southey, Robert, [>]–[>], [>]
Spacks, Patricia Meyer, [>]
T. C. Newby, publisher, [>], [>], [>]
Talbot, Henry Fox, [>]
Taylor, Martha, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Taylor, Mary
home and family, [>]
independence, [>]–[>]
on Jane Eyre, [>]
move to New Zealand, [>], [>]
portrait of, [>]
sister’s death, [>]
studies in Belgium, [>]
support for Charlotte’s engagement, [>]
teaching at boys’ school, [>]
visit to Haworth parsonage, [>]
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (A. Bell/Brontë), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Thackeray, William Makepeace, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Tom Jones (Fielding), [>]
tuberculosis, [>]–[>]
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), [>], [>]
Victorian England
advances and achievements, [>], [>]
on ambitious women, [>]
cholera, [>]–[>]
coronation and reign of Queen Victoria, [>]
cross-hatched writing, [>]
on curative effects of sea air, [>]
factories and mass production, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, [>]–[>], [>]
husband’s custody of children in marriage, [>]
husband’s possession of wife’s property, [>], [>]–[>]
middle class, [>]
occupations acceptable for women, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
opium as medication, [>]
popularity of novels, [>]–[>], [>]
preparation of women for marriage, [>], [>]
railroads, [>]
secrecy concerning harmful relationships, [>]
slums, [>]
submissiveness of women, [>], [>]
tuberculosis, [>]–[>]
on unescorted travel by women, [>]–[>]
on women as teachers of schoolboys, [>]
on women as writers, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Villette (C. Bell/Brontë), [>]–[>]
Weightman, William, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Williams, William Smith, [>]–[>]
Wilson, William Carus, [>], [>]
Wooler, Margaret
appearance, [>], [>]
on Charlotte’s friendship with atheist, [>]
at Charlotte’s wedding, [>]
compassion for Charlotte, [>]
disagreement with Charlotte, [>]
goal as teacher, [>], [>]
on women as teachers of schoolboys, [>]
Wordsworth, William,
[>], [>]
Wuthering Heights (E. Bell/Brontë)
contemporary analysis, [>]
dishonest publisher, [>]
publication of, [>], [>], [>]
revelation of author’s identity, [>]
reviews of, [>]–[>]
scene and illustrations from, [>], [>], [>]
story, [>]–[>]
About the Author
The award-winning CATHERINE REEF is the author of more than forty nonfiction books for young readers, including Jane Austen: A Life Revealed among many other biographies. She lives in College Park, Maryland. Visit her at www.catherinereef.com.