THE person chiefly responsible for the received Bronte legend is Elizabeth Gaskell. Her "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Juliet Barker acknowledges "set a new standard in literary biography and is still widely read", was published in 1857, two years after her subject's death,...

by Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars; Cambridge University Press, 1995, $49.95. The interaction of the visual and the literary in Victorian art and writing has long been an object of study for historians of art and scholars of literature: the use of...

In the following essay, Collins offers a comprehensive introduction to two of Brontë's Angrian chronicles, The Life of … Northangerland and Real Life in Verdopolis, describing their inception among the tales of the Brontë children's “Great Glasstown Confederacy” and noting their emphasis on the figure of the Luciferian anti-hero.

In the following essay, Collins undertakes a close examination of Brontë as a poet, considering his publishing history, relationships with his sisters (particularly Emily), poetic influences, and primary themes and characters.

In the following excerpt, Law argues that Branwell, not Emily, wrote Wuthering Heights, citing the masculine tone of the novel among other evidence to support her claim.