List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Chronology of the Bronte family
Introduction
HEATHER GLEN
1 The Haworth context
JULIET BARKER
2『Our plays』:the bronte juvenilia
CAROL BOCK
3 the poetry
ANGELA LEIGHTON
4『Three distinct and unconnected tales』:the Professor,Anges Grey and Wuthering Heights
STEVIE DAVIES
5『Strong family likeness』:Jane Eyre and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall
JILL MATUS
6 Shirley and Villette
HEATHER GLEN
7『Getting on』:ideology,personality and the Bronte characters
RICK RYLANCE
8 Women writers,women’’s issues
KATE FLINT
9 The Brontes and religion
JOHN MAYNARD
10 The bronte myth
PATSY STONEMAN
Further reading
Index