1st Edition

The Clue to the Brontës

By G. Elsie Harrison Copyright 1948
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1948, The Clue to the Brontës was written in part as response to a previous biography of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs Gaskell.  The author argues that Gaskell's biography gets it all wrong. Harrison draws connections between Patrick Brontë and John Wesley. She finds Gaskell paid too much attention to gossip and did not verify her facts.  The influence of John Wesley and... Read more

Preface.  Acknowledgement.  1. Irish Cabin  2. Irish Mansion  3. All Saints  4. Woodhouse Grove  5. Maria Branwell  6. Gay Go Up Means Gay Go Down  7. Miss Branwell  8. Maria  9. Nursery of Genius  10. Charlotte  11. Branwell  12. Marvellous  13. Luddenden Foot  14. William Weightman  15. Aunt’s Death  16. The Castaway  17. Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell  18. Jane Eyre  19. Wuthering Heights  20. Trilogy of Death  21. Shirley  22. Love and Death  23. Mrs Gaskell  24. Sole Survivor.  References.  Index.

Biography

G. Elsie Harrison (1886–1964) was trained in the Manchester History School under T. F. Tout and made her own distinctive contribution to Methodist biography and history. She was once described as 'one of our personalities, a sort of Lady Violet Bonham Carter of Methodism, gifted, eloquent, enthusiastic, a passionate partisan'.