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Clement Shorter, Charlotte Brontë and her Circle (1896); (ed.) The Life of Charlotte Brontë, by Mrs Gaskell (Haworth edition, 1900); Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters (1905); The Brontës : Life and Letters (1908); The Brontës and their Circle (1914).

The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, ed. T. J. Wise and J. A. Symington (1932).

Recently for instance by Mildred G. Christian, in Lionel Stevenson, ed., Victorian Fiction (1964), pp. 215, 219; and as early as 1947-8 in her articles in The Trollopian.

The Letters of Mrs Gaskell, ed. J. A. V. Chapple and Arthur Pollard (1966), p. 883.

"'Where did you get this?' he said," (p. 366).

The insertion of a comma after "fear" in Charlotte's "Mr Newby being anathematised, I fear with undue vehemence."

Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford, The Brontës' Web of Childhood (1941); Phyllis E. Bentley, The Brontës (1947); Margaret Lane, The Brontë Story (1953); Margaret Crompton, The Passionate Search (1955).

Abbreviations in footnotes are: S, Shorter's text in Mrs Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Haworth edition, 1900), pp. 365-8; L, Shorter's text in The Brontës : Life and Letters (1908), pp. 435-9; W, Wise and Symington's text in The Brontës : Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence (1932), II, pp. 250-4.