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Machine generated contents note: Chronology; Introduction / Marianne Thormählen; Part I. Places, Persons and Publishing: 1. Haworth in the time of the Bronte͏̈s / Michael Baumber; 2. Domestic life at Haworth Parsonage / Ann Dinsdale; 3. Northern-England locations associated with the Bronte͏̈s' lives and works / Ann Dinsdale; 4. The father of the Bronte͏̈s / Dudley Green; 5. A mother and her substitutes: Maria Bronte (née Branwell), Elizabeth Branwell and Margaret Wooler / Bob Duckett; 6. Patrick Branwell Bronte͏̈ / Victor A. Neufeldt; 7. Charlotte Bronte͏̈ / Dinah Birch; 8. Emily Bronte͏̈ / Lyn Pykett; 9. Anne Bronte͏̈ / Maria Frawley; 10. Friends, servants and a husband / Stephen Whitehead; 11. The Bronte͏̈s' sibling bonds / Drew Lamonica Arms; 12. Juvenilia / Christine Alexander; 13. The Brussels experience / Sue Lonoff; 14. The Bronte͏̈ correspondence / Margaret Smith; 15. Portraits of the Bronte͏̈s / Jane Sellars; 16. The poetry of the Bronte͏̈s / Janet Gezari; 17. Literary influences on the Bronte͏̈s / Sara J. Lodge; 18. The Bronte͏̈s' way into print / Linda H. Peterson; 19. Reading the Bronte͏̈s: their first audiences / Stephen Colclough; Part II. Scholarship, Criticism, Adaptations and Translations: 20. Bronte͏̈ biography: a survey of a genre / Tom Winnifrith; 21. Mid-nineteenth-century critical responses to the Bronte͏̈s / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein; 22. Bronte͏̈ scholarship and criticism, 1920-1970 / Herbert Rosengarten; 23. Bronte͏̈ scholarship and criticism, approx. 1970-2000 / Sara J. Lodge; 24. Current trends in Bronte͏̈ criticism and scholarship / Alexandra Lewis; 25. Adaptations, prequels, sequels, translations / Patsy Stoneman; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 26. Religion / David Jasper; 27. The philosophical-intellectual context / Stephen Prickett; 28. Education / Dinah Birch; 29. Art and music / Christine Alexander; 30. Natural history / Barbara T. Gates; 31. Politics / Simon Avery; 32. Newspapers and magazines / Joanne Shattock; 33. Agriculture and industry / Marianne Thormählen with Steven Wood; 34. Transport and travel / Edward Chitham; 35. Law / Ian Ward; 36. Class / Elizabeth Langland; 37. Careers for middle-class women / Elizabeth Langland; 38. Marriage and family life / Marianne Thormählen; 39. Dress / Birgitta Berglund; 40. Sexuality / Jill L. Matus; 41. Physical health / Janis McLarren Caldwell; 42. Mental health / Janis McLarren Caldwell; Further reading; Index.
