List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Chronology of the Bronte family
Introduction
1 The Haworth context
2 ‘Our plays’:the bronte juvenilia
3 the poetry
4 ‘Three distinct and unconnected tales’:the Professor,Anges Grey
and Wuthering Heights
5 ‘Strong family likeness’:Jane Eyre and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall
6 Shirley and Villette
7 ‘Getting on’:ideology,personality and the Bronte characters
8 Women writers,women's issues
9 The Brontes and religion
10 The bronte myth
Further reading
Index