Table of Contents

Volume 1: The Brownings Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'Glimpses into My Own Life and Literary Character; Thomas Carlyle, New Letters of Thomas Carlyle; Charles Gavin Duffy, Conversations with Carlyle; Richard Hengist Horne, A New Spirit of the Age; Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1845-1846; Mary Russell Mitford, Recollections of a Literary Life; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'Flush or Faunus'; Memorials of Charles Boner; Gerardine McPherson, Memoirs of Anna Jameson; Anna Jameson, Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships; Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (extracts); Mrs David Oglivy, 'Memoir'; Robert Browning, The Death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning, Edward Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning, 'O Lyric Love'; Kate Field, 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning', Atlantic Monthly; Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Note-books; Edmund Clarence Stedman, Victorian Poets; Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember; John Ingram, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; William Sharp, Life of Robert Browning; Edmund Gosse, Personalia; Mrs [Alexandra] Sutherland Orr, Life and Letters of Robert Browning; Anne Ritchie, Records of Tennyson, Ruskin and Browning; Mrs Andrew [Cornelia] Crosse, The Red-Letter Days of My Life; L. B. Walford, Twelve English Authoresses; Alice Meynell, Introduction to Prometheus Bound and Other Poems; Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir By His Son; 'Michael Field', Works and Days; F. Merrifield, Times Literary Supplement; Robert Barrett Browning, Times Literary Supplement; Katharine de Kay Bronson, 'Browning in Venice', Cornhill Magazine; Henry James, William Wetmore Story and His Friends; G. K. Chesterton, Robert Browning; William Michael Rossetti, Some Reminiscences; Fannie Barrett Browning, Some Memories of Robert Browning; Dora Greenwell, 'To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851'; Dora Greenwell, 'To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861'; Bessie Rayner Parkes, 'To Elizabeth Barrett Browning'; Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 'To Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Her Later Sonnets, 1856'; Emily Dickinson, 'Her Last Poems'; Walter Savage Landor, 'To Robert Browning'; Theodore Martin, 'Robert Browning'; Algernon Swinburne, 'A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning' Volume 2: The Brontes Charlotte Bronte [Currer Bell], 'Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell'; Charlotte Bronte [Currer Bell], 'Editor's Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights'; Charlotte Bronte [Currer Bell], Preparatory Note to 'Selections [of Poems by Ellis Bell]'; Elizabeth Gaskell, The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence; Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte; A. H., Letter of August 1855; Ellen Nussey, 'Reminiscences of Charlotte Bronte', Scribner's Monthly; Ellen Nussey, [Reminiscences of the last days of Anne Bronte], The Life of Charlotte Bronte; Mary Taylor, Letters to Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte; George A. Wade, 'Charlotte Bronte as I Knew Her', Great Thoughts; William Scruton, 'Martha Brown', Thornton and the Brontes; William Scruton, Pen and Pencil Pictures of Old Bradford; C. Holmes Cautley, 'Old Haworth Folk Who Knew the Brontes', Cornhill Magazine; [Benjamin Binns], 'The Brontes and Bronte Country', Bradford Observer; Anon., 'A "Stroller's" Interview with Charlotte Bronte', Thornton and the Brontes; [John Stores Smith], 'Personal Reminiscences: A Day with Charlotte Bronte', Free Lance: A Journal of Humour and Criticism; Robert Southey, The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles; Mrs Oliphant, Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and His Sons, Their Magazine and Friends; Arthur Christopher Benson, The Life of Edward White Benson; Mrs Strickland, [Charlotte and the White Family of Rawdon], Westminster Gazette; Letter from Constantine Heger to the Revd Patrick Bronte, (November 1842); Theo[dore F.] Wolfe, 'Scenes of Charlotte Bronte's Life in Brussels', Lippincott's Magazine; Letter from Mlle de Bassompierre in Thornton and the Brontes; Joseph J. Green, 'Miss Wheelwright', Hastings and St Leonards Observer; William Dearden [Oakendale], 'Who Wrote "Wuthering Heights"?', Halifax Guardian; Francis H. Grundy, Pictures of the Past: Memories of Men I have Met and Places I Have Seen; Francis A. Leyland, The Bronte Family, with Special Reference to Patrick Branwell Bronte; George Smith, 'Charlotte Bronte', Cornhill Magazine; R[ichard] H[enry] Horne, 'Charlotte Bronte', in Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Benjamin Lewes Saul [Lewis Melville], William Makepeace Thackeray: A Biography; William Makepeace Thackeray, 'The Last Sketch', Cornhill Magazine; Anna Isabella Ritchie, 'My Witches' Cauldron', Chapters from Some Memoirs; Letter from Anne Thackeray Ritchie to Reginald J. Smith; Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie; Mrs Brookfield, Mrs Brookfield and Her Circle; Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle to Helen Walsh, Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to her Family; Emily and Catherine Winkworth, Memorial of Two Sisters; Harriet Martineau, Autobiography, with Memorials by Marian Weston Chapman; Harriet Martineau, 'Death of Currer Bell', Biographical Sketches, 1852-1875; Matthew Arnold, Letter to Miss Wightman; Matthew Arnold, 'Haworth Churchyard', Fraser's Magazine; W. H. Cooke, 'A Winter's Day at Haworth', St James's Magazine; Anon., 'An Australian Squatter's Recollections of the Brontes', Leeds Mercury; [Abraham Holroyd], 'Reminiscences of the Brontes', Thornton and the Brontes; Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, The Right Honorable Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt K.C.B.: A Memoir; William Cory, Extracts from the Letters and Journals of William Cory Volume 3: The Rossettis 'Campaigner At Home' [Anon.], 'Our Camp in the Woodland:A Day with the Gentle Poets', Fraser's Magazine; Anon., 'Christina G. Rossetti', Catholic World; T. Hall Caine, Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Joseph Knight, Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; William Minto, Autobiographical Notes on the Life of William Bell Scott; Thomas Gordon Hake, Memoirs of Eighty Years; Edmund Gosse, 'Christina Rossetti', Century; F. G. Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Alice Meynell, 'Christina Rossetti', New Review; Ellen A. Proctor, A Brief Memoir of Christina G. Rossetti; William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family-Letters, with a Memoir; Anon., 'The Rossettis', London Quarterly Review; Mackenzie Bell, Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study; Herbert H. Gilchrist, 'Recollections of Rossetti', Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; Henry Treffry Dunn, Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His Circle; William Michael Rossetti, The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with Memoir and Notes; Arthur C. Benson, Rossetti; William Michael Rossetti, Some Reminiscences; W. Theodore Watts-Dunton, Old Familiar Faces; Arthur Symons, Studies in Strange Souls; Virginia Woolf, 'I am Christina Rossetti', The Common Reader; Frances Winwar, The Rossettis and Their Circle

Reviews

'instructive and engaging.' The Dickensian