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Charlotte Bronte

Female : Novelist. Married one of her father's curates, Rev Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854. She died from TB after only nine months of marriage. Nicholls lived with Rev Patrick Bronte until he died in 1865. He returned to Ireland and lived until 1906
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1816 Date of Death : 1855 Age : 39

Pseudonyms : Currer Bell
1846-1848
Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
(1846 Aylott & Jones) - First issue
Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
(1846 Aylott & Jones) - 2nd issue
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(1847 Smith Elder. Ads dated June 1847) - 3 vols
[Filmed in 1934, 1943, 1970 & 1996]
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(1847 Smith Elder. Ads dated Oct 1847) - 3 vols
[Sold at auction in New York in 2004 for £22.859]
Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
(1848 Smith Elder) - 2nd ed
Jane Eyre
(1848 Smith Elder 2nd Ed) - 3 vols
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(1848 Harper NY - 1st American edition)
Offered in 1998 for £400

1849-1850
Shirley : A Tale
(1849 Smith Elder) - 3 vols (1850 Harper) - by Currer Bell

1851-1860
Villette
(1853 Smith Elder) - 3 vols. By Currer Bell
Offered in 1998 for £850
Villette
(1853 Harper Library of Select Novels) (1855 Smith Elder - single Vol Edition)
The Professor : A Tale
(1857 Smith Elder) - 2 vols. By Currer Bell
Offered in 1999 for £1600
The Professor : A Tale
(1857 Smith Elder) (1857 Harper) - single volume
The Last Sketch - Emma : A Fragment
(1860 The Cornhill Magazine Vol 1)

1861-1900
The Life & Works of Charlotte Bronte & Her Sisters
(1882 Smith Elder) - 7 vols
Works
(intro by Mrs Humphrey Ward) (1899 London) - 7 vols
The Life & Works of Charlotte Bronte & Her Sisters
(1899-1900, Smith Elder, The Haworth Edition) - 7 vols
The Life & Works of Charlotte Bronte & Her Sisters
(c1899 Harper NY) - 7 vols

1901-1925
Novels of the Sisters Bronte
(1905 Grant, Edinburgh) - Edited by Temple Scott
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(1905 Dent) - Edmund Dulac
Novels of the Sisters Bronte
(1905 Dent) - 10 vols. Edmund Dulac
The Novels of the Sisters Bronte : with Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte
(1911 John Grant, Edinburgh) - Thornton Edition. 12 vols
Offered in 1998 for £325
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(c1915 Collins) - Willy Pogany
Bronte Poems : Selections from the Poetry of Charlotte, Emily, Anne & Branwell
(1915 Smith Elder) - Edited by A C Benson
Napoleon and the Spectre : A Ghost Story
(1919 PP by Clement Shorter, London) - 15pp Pb. 25 copies
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(1923 Edition d'Art, Paris) - Ethel Gabain
The Novels of the Sisters Bronte : with Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte
(1924 John Grant, Edinburgh) - Thornton Edition. 12 vols
Offered in 1998 for £775
The Twelve Adventurers & Other Stories
(1925 H & S)

1926-1950
The Spell : An Unpublished Novel
(1931 OUP)
The Shakespeare Head Bronte
(1931 Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford) - 11 vols. 1000
Legends of Angria
(1933 Yale Univ Press) - Ed by Fannie E Ratchford
The Poems of Charlotte Bronte and Patrick Branwell Bronte
(1934 OUP) - Ed by Wise & Symington
The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Bronte
(1934 OUP) - (Ed) Wise & Symington
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(1942 Heritage Press, US) - Barnett Freedman
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(1943 Random House) - Fritz Eichenberg

AFTER 1951
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(1955 Macdonald) - Lynton Lamb
Tales from Angria
(1954 Collins) - Ed by Phyllis Bentley
Jane Eyre
(1955 Collins) - Barnett Freedman
Novels
(1964-70 Folio Society) - 7 vols in slipcase
Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
(1965 Folio Society in slipcase) - Anthony Colbert
The Search After Hapiness : A Tale
(1969 Harvill Press) - Carolyn Dinan
Five Novelettes
(1971 Folio Soc in slipcase) - Ed by Winifred Gerin
Two Tales
(1978 Missouri UP)
The Poems of Charlotte Bronte
(1984 Blackwell) - edited by Tom Winnifrith
A Leaf from an Unopened Volume
(1986 Bronte Society)
An edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Bronte : Vol 1 - The Glass Town Saga 1826-32
(1987 For Shakespeare Head Press by Blackwell)

READING
1857-1900
E C Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte
(1857 Smith Elder) - 2 vols
Harriet Martineau : Biographical Sketches
(1869 Macmillan)
Mrs Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte
(1872) - 7 vols
A C Swinburne : A Note on Charlotte Bronte
(1877 Chatto)
T Wemyss Reid : Charlotte Bronte
(1877 Macmillan)
Augustine Birrell : Life of Charlotte Bronte
(1887 Walter Scott)
Mrs Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte
(1893 illustrated) - 12 vols
Bronte Society Transactions
(1895 onwards)
Clement K Shorter : Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle
(1896 Hodder & Stoughton)
W Matthews : Charlotte Bronte
(1897 Burroughs)
Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte & Her Sisters
(Intro Mrs Humphry Ward & C K Shorter
(1899) - 12 vols
Marion Harland : Charlotte Bronte at Home
(1899 Putnam US)
Elbert Hubbard : Charlotte Bronte
(1899 Putnams, US)

1901-1950
May Byron : A Day with Charlotte Bronte
(c1911 H & S)
Grace Milne Rae : Thoughts from Charlotte Bronte
(1912 Nimmo)
F Macdonald : The Secret of Charlotte Bronte
(c1914 Jack)
Maude Goldring : Charlotte Bronte the Woman : A Study
(1915 Elkin Mathews 2/6)
(Ed) Bulter Wood : Charlotte Bronte 1816-1916 (1918 Fisher Unwin)
M H Spielman : The Inner History of the Bronte-Heger Letters
(1919 Chapman & Hall)
E F Benson : Charlotte Bronte
(1932 Longmans)
Florence Dry : The Sources of Jane Eyre
(1940 Heffer)
Laura Hinkley : The Brontes - Charlotte & Emily
(1947 Hammond)

1951-1975
Priscilla Bailey : Charlotte Bronte
(1953 Newnes)
J Malham-Dembleby : The Confessions of Charlotte Bronte
(1954 PP)
Phyllis Bentley : The Brontes
(1954 Arthur Barker)
Margaret Crompton : The Passionate Search - A Life of Charlotte Bronte
(1955 Cassell 21/-)
E Kyle : Girl with a Pen
(1963 Evans)
Elfrida Vipont : Weaver of Dreams
(1966 HH)
Robert B Martin : The Accents of Persuasion
(1966)
Winifred Gerin : Charlotte Bronte- the Evolution of a Genius
(1967 OUP 63/-)
E C Gaskell : The Life of Charlotte Bronte
(1968 Arthur Dobson, Bradford Pbs) - 2 vols
Norman Sherry : The Brontes - Charlotte and Emily
(1969)

1976-1990
Margot Peters : Unquiet Soul - A Biography of Charlotte Bronte
(1975 Hodder & Stoughton)
Anne Passel : Charlotte & Emily Bronte - An Annotated Bibliography
(1979 Garland)
Christine Alexander : A Bibliography of the MSS of Charlotte Bronte
(1982 Bronte Society, Haworth with Meckler Publishing)
Christine Alexander : the Early Writings of Charlotte Bronte
(1983)
Helene Moglen : Charlotte Bronte - The Self Conceived
(1984)
Pauline Nestor : Female Friendships & Communities - Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot,
Elizabeth Gaskell
(1985)
Margot Peters : Unquiet Soul
(1987)
Valerie Grosvenor Myer : Charlotte Bronte - truculent Spirit
(1987 Vision and Barnes & Noble)
Pauline Nestor : Charlotte Bronte
(1987)
Rebecca Fraser : Charlotte Bronte
(1988)
(Ed) Christine Alexander : The Early Writings of Charlotte Bronte 1826-35 (1987-93) - 3 vols
Penny Boumelha : Charlotte Bronte
(1990)

AFTER 1991
Lyndell Gordon : Charlotte Bronte
(1994 Chatto & Windus £17.99) (1995 Vintage pb £7.99)
(Ed) Margaret Smith : Charlotte Bronte Letters - Vol 1 1829-1847 (1995 OUP £55)
Sally Shuttleworth : Charlotte Bronte & Victorian Psychology
(1996 CUP £35)
(Ed) Margaret Smith : The Letters of Charlotte Bronte Vol 3 1852-1855 (2004 OUP £85)

Related Writers

Edmund Dulac
Edinburgh
George Eliot
Folio Society
Harriet Martineau
Willy Pogany


See also

Edward Frederick Benson
Everyman Series 1-500
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Paul Hogarth
Lynton Harold Lamb
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics
Algernon Charles Swinburne