Notes
1 Thomes James Wise, ed., The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, 2 vols (Philadelphia: Porcupine, 1980), 175, 266, 268, 295, 322.
2 All passages are from Charlotte Bronte, Shirley (New York: Oxford University Press, [1849] 1981).
3 “Reid-Ventilation,” Quarterly Review 77 (1845–6): 401.