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Slavery: Idée Fixe of Emily and Charlotte Brontë

Pages 113-121 | Published online: 18 Jul 2013

References

  • May Sinclair, The Three Brontës (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1914).
  • Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (The World's Classics, Oxford University Press 1947), 7.
  • Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (The World's Classics, Oxford University Press 1991), chapter 2.7.
  • W. L. Burn, Emancipation and Apprenticeship in the British West Indies (London 1937), p. 360.
  • Susan L. Meyer, Imperialism at Home: Race in Victorian Women's Fiction (Ithaca, NY 1996), pp. 60–95.
  • Juliet Barker, The Brontës (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1994), p. 145.
  • Barker, p. 119). 1’
  • Barker, p. 145.
  • Oliver Warner, William Wilberforce and his Times (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1961), pp. 64, 104.
  • Wuthering Heights, chapter 4.
  • Barker, pp. 313, 469–70.
  • Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars, The Art of the Brontës (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), P. 348.
  • F. B. Pinion, ‘Scott and Wuthering Heights’, Brontë Society Transactions, 21. 7 (1996), 313.
  • Margaret Smith, Letters of Charlotte Brontë, vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), P-432., n. I.
  • J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, abridged version in one volume, p. 529.
  • G. Bernard Wood, A Negro Trail in the North of England (Country Life Annual, 1967).
  • Sarah Fermi and Robin Greenwood, ‘Jane Eyre and the Greenwood Family’, Brontë Society Transactions, 22 (1997), 47.
  • Barker, p. 333.
  • Charlotte Brontë, Villette (Oxford University Press 1984), Notes, P. 536.
  • Both extracts are quoted in Robert B. Heilman, ‘Charlotte Brontë’s ‘New’ Gothic’, in From Austen to Conrad, ed. by R. C. Rathburn and M. Steinmann (Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1958), pp. 118–32. A Maroon was a black Jamaican runaway slave; they formed bands and threatened white supremacy.
  • Herbert Dingle, ‘The Origin of Heathcliff’, Brontë Society Transactions, 16. 2(1972), 131–38.
  • James Walvin, Black Ivory, Slavery in the British Empire, znd edn (Blackwell, zoot), p. 56.
  • Walvin's Index, and his numerous sources, contain these names. Quamina appears on p. 237 of his text. This name may be compared with ‘Quashia Quamina’, quoted, for example, in Winifred GerM's Branwell Brontë (Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1961), Appendix A, p. 314: ... Branwell, as well as Charlotte and Emily, had from childhood written and romanced about a black changeling child, "Quashia Quamina"
  • Edward Chitham, The Birth of Wuthering Heights (Macmillan 1998), p. 119.
  • Stevie Davies, Emily Brontë, Heretic (Women's Press 1994), p. 199.
  • Walvin, Black Ivory, p. 206.
  • Walvin, p. 212.
  • Wuthering Heights, chapter 34.
  • Wuthering Heights, chapter 34.
  • Jane Eyre, chapter 18.
  • Jane Eyre, chapter 19.
  • Walvin, Black Ivory, p. 57.
  • Oliver Warner, William Wilberforce and his Times, p. 48.
  • Warner, p. 19.
  • Walvin, Black Ivory, p. 5.

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