Recommended Reading…

For interested scholars, here is the list of all the books that feature in my research:

Alexander, Christine & Sellars, Jane, eds., The Art of the Brontës (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Alexander, Christine & McMaster, Juliet, eds., Child Writer: From Austen to Woolf(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Alexander, Christine. ‘In Search of the Authorial Self: Branwell Brontë’s Microcosmic World,’ Journal of Juvenilia Studies, 1: 3-19, 2018.

Alexander, Christine & Margaret Smith, The Oxford Companion to the Brontës (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 [2006]).

Allott, Miriam, The Brontës: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1947).

Bakhtin, Mikhail, ‘Discourse in the Novel,’ The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays,Michael Holquist, ed. (Austin, 1981).

Barker, Juliet, The Brontës (London: Phoenix, 1995 [1994]).

Barker, Juliet, The Brontës: A Life in Letters,(London: Little, Brown, 2016).

Barnard, Robert & Barnard, Louise, A Brontë Encyclopaedia (West Sussex: Blackwell, 2013 [2007]).

Belzoni, G., Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, (London: John Murray,1820).

Hebron, Stephen, ‘An Introduction to “Ozymandias,”’ Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians (British Library, 2014).

Bennett, Betty T. & Curran, Stuart, eds., Mary Shelley in Her Times (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).

Bentley, Phyllis, ‘A Charlotte Brontë Sketch Book’, Brontë Society Transactions, vol. xi, pt. ivxxx (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 1948).

Bloom, Clive, The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (London: Springer, 2020). 

Bloom, Clive, The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins (London: Palgrave, 2022).

Bloom, Harold, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (New York: Cornell University Press, 1971[1961]).

Bloom, Harold, Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre(New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2007).

Bloom, Harold, Bloom’s Guides: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (New York: InfoBase, 2008).

Brake, Laurel, Bell, Bill, & Finkelstein, David, Nineteenth─century Media and the Construction of Identities (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2000).

Brayman Hackel, Heidi & Kelly, Catherine E., Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500 ─1800,Hackel, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2008).

Brown, Jim, ‘Branwell Brontë’s Latin and his translation of Horace,’ The Journal of the Brontë Society. vol. 42, issue 3, 2017.Butcher, Emma. The Brontës and War: Fantasy and Conflict in Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Youthful Writings.(Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).

Cannon, John, The History of the Brontë Family: From Ireland to Wuthering Heights,(Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2000). 

Chadwick, Ellis, H., In the Footsteps of the Brontës (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 [1895]).

Chitham, Edward, The Birth of Wuthering Heights (London: Palgrave Macmillian, 1998).

Chitham, Edward, & Winnifrith, Tom, Brontë Facts and Brontë Problems (London: Macmillian, 1983).

Chitham, Edward, A Life of Emily Brontë(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987)

Clayton, Jay, Romantic Vision and the Novel(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

Collini, Stefan, Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain: 1850─1930 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991).

Courtemanche, Eleanor, The Invisible Hand and British Fiction, 1818-1860, (Palgrave Macmillian: Hampshire, 2011).

Craciun, Adriana, Fatal Women of Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 [2003]).

Craik, W. A., The Brontё Novels, (London: Methuen & Co., 1968).

Davies, Stevie, Emily Brontë: Heretic(London: Women’s Press, 1994).

Deazley, Ronan, Rethinking Copyright: History, Theory, Language (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006).

Delafield, Catherine, Serialisation and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines (London: Routledge, 2016).

Drabble, Margaret, ‘Introduction,’ Wuthering Heights (London: Everyman, 2000 [1978]).

Duckett, Bob, ‘The Library at Ponden Hall’, Brontë Studies, 40 (2): 104-149, April 2015.

DuMaurier, Daphne, The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (London: Gallancz, 1960).

Eagleton, Terry, Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (London: Verso, 1995).

Eagleton, Terry, Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Elfenbein, Andrew, Byron and the Victorians(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 [1995]).

Everest, Kelvin, ‘Shelley’s Doubles: An Approach to Julian and Maddalo’, Shelley Revalued: Essays form the Gregynog Conference, (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1983).

Everitt, Alastair, Wuthering Heights: An Anthology of Criticism, (London: Frank Cass, 1967).

Fegan, Melissa, Wuthering Heights: Character Studies (London: Continuum, 2008).

Ferber, Michael, ‘Alastor,’ Critical Studies: The Poetry of Shelley (London: Penguin Books, 1993).

Finkelstein, David, Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805 ─1830 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).

Franklin, Caroline, The Female Romantics: Nineteenth─century Women Novelists and Byron (London: Routledge, 2013).

Gallagher, H. W., ‘Frankenstein and the Genesis of Heathcliff,’ Brontë Studies, vol. 29, pt. 2, pp. 164─5 (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2004).

Gardiner, Juliet, The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës: The letters, diaries, and writings of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, (London: Batsford, 2021).  

Gaskell, Elizabeth, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Jay, Elizabeth, ed. (London: Penguin, 1997 [1857]).

Gérin, Winifred, Branwell Brontë: A Biography (London: Thomas Nelson, 1951).

Gérin, Winifred, Anne Brontë: A Biography(London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1959).

Gérin, Winifred, Charlotte Brontë: Evolution of Genius (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961).

Gérin, Winifred, Emily Brontë: A Biography(London: Clarendon Press, 1971).

Glen, Heather, The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Glen, Heather, ‘Introduction’ in Brontë,Charlotte, Tales of Angria (London: Penguin, 2006).

Gilbert, Sandra M. & Gubar, Susan, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000 [1984]).

Gordon, Lyndall, Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (Hachette Digital, 2009 [1994]).

Hagan, Sandra & Wells, Juliette, The Brontës in the World of Arts (London: Routledge, 2016). 

Hale, Charles, ‘An American Visitor at Haworth, 1861,’ Brontë Society Transactions, vol. 15, part 77 (Leeds Maney Publishing, 1967).

Harman, Claire, Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 2016).

Hewish, John, Emily Brontë: A Critical & Biographical Study (London: Macmillian, 1971 [1969]).

Hirsh, Pam, ‘Charlotte Brontë and George Sand: the Influence of Female Romanticism,’ BST 21, 1996, pp. 202-218.

Hoeveler, Diane Long & Morse, Deborah Denenholz, eds., A Companion to the Brontës, (Chichester: Whiley Blackwell, 2016).

Higgins, David, Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine: Biography, Celebrity and Politics (Oxon: Routledge, 2005).

Holquist, Michael, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Austin: University of Texas, 1981).

Hudson, Nicholas, Writing and European Thought 1600 ─1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Hutcheon, Linda & O’Flynn, Siobhan, A Theory of Adaptation (London: Routledge, 2016 [2006]).

Hutton, Joanna, ‘The Sale at Haworth Parsonage on October 1st and 2nd, 1861,’ Brontë Society Transactions, vol. 14, pt. 5 (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 1965).

James, Felicity, & North, Julian, ‘Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian Autobiography,’ Life Writing, vol. 14, Issue 12 (June 2017).

James, Henry, ‘The Lesson of Balzac’, in Two Lectures (Boston and New York, 1905).

Kaplan, Deborah, Jane Austen Among Women (Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 2019).

Kiely, Robert, The Romantic Novel in England (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).

Lane, Christopher, The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).

Langland, Elizabeth, Anne Brontë: The Other One (New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1989).

Lawson, John & Silver, Harold, A Social History of Education in England (London: Routledge, 2013 [1973]). 

Lester Bradner, ‘The Growth of Wuthering Heights,’ Wuthering Heights: An Anthology of Criticism (London: Frank Cass, 1967).

Levine, George & Knoepflmacher, U. C., eds. The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley’s Novel(Oakland: University of California Press, 1979).  

Leyland, Francis A., The Brontë Family: With Special Reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë, In Two Volumes (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1886).

Leyland, Francis, A Complete Transcript of the Leyland Manuscripts, eds. Symington, Alex J. & Hatfield, C. W. (Privately printed, 1925).

Leyland, Francis A., The Brontë Family(Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2017).

Lonoff, Sue, ed., Charlotte & Emily Brontë: The Belgian Essays (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).

MacFarlane, Robert, Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth Century Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Mazzeo, Tilar J., ed., Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings, vol. i (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2002).

Mazzeo, Tilar J., Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

McCarthy, Fiona, Byron: Life and Legend(London: Faber and Faber, 2003).

McInnes, Andrew, ‘Feminism in the Footnotes: Wollstonecraft’s Ghost in Mary Hays’ “Female Biography,” Life Writing, vol. 8, Issue 3 (tandfonline.com, 2011.

McInterney, Peter, Milton and the Romantics(Boston: Northeastern University, 1980).

McNees, Eleanor Jane, The Brontё Sisters: Critical Assessment, vol. II (Hastings: Helm Information, 1996).

Miller, Lucasta, The Brontë Myth (London: Random House, 2002).

Michie, Elisie B., The Similization of the Irish, Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer (London, Cornell University Press: 1993).

Moers, Ellen, Literary Women (London: Women’s Press, 1978).

Mole, Tom, Byron’s Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and Hermeneutic of Intimacy (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).

Monahan, Melodie, ed., Ashworth: An Unfinished Novel by Charlotte Brontë, Studies in Philology, 80 (Autumn 1983).

Morrison, Lucy, & Stone, Staci, A Mary Shelley Encyclopaedia (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003).

Morrison, Robert & Roberts, Daniel S., eds., Romanticism and Blackwood’s, (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Robert Morrison, The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron, and the Making of the Modern World, (London: Atlantic Books, 2019).

Mosley, J & C, eds., The Christian Remembrancer, xxv, (London: J & C Mosley,1857).

Newlyn, Lucy, Reading, Writing and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 [2000]).

North, Julian, The Domestication of Genius: Bibliography and the Romantic Poet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

North, Julian, ‘Intertextual Sociability in Victorian Lives of the Romantic Poets: Thomas DeQuincey’s Lake Reminiscences and Edward John Trelawny’s “Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron,”’ Life Writing, vol. 14, Issue 12 (June 2017).

O’Callaghan, Claire, Emily Brontë Reappraised (Salford: Saraband, 2018).

Orel, Harold, ed., The Brontës: Interviews and Recollections (Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1997).

Origo, Iris, The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli as Told in Their Unpublished Letters and Other Family Papers (London: Turtle Point Press, 2000).

Pearson, Jaqueline, Women’s Reading in Britain: 1750 ─1835 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 [1999]).

Peters, Laura, Orphan Texts: Victorian Orphans, Culture and Empire, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000).

Peterson, Lynda H., (ed), Victorian Women Writers’ Careers, Part I, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Pryce-Jones, David, Treason of the Heart: From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby (New York: Encounter, 2011).

Pykett, Lyn, Emily Brontë (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 1989).

Pykett, Lyn, Women Writers: Emily Brontë(Maryland: Barnes and Nobel, 1989).

Ratchford, Fannie Elizabeth, The Brontës’ Web of Childhood (New York: Russell & Russell, 1964 [1941].

Ratchford, Fannie E., Gondal’s Queen(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1955).

Renfroe, Alicia, Defining Romanticism: The Implications of Nature as Personified as Female in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Prometheus Unplugged, 3rd Annual National Graduate Student Conference on Romanticism, April 1996.

Richardson, Alan, British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (2001).

Rivers, Isabel, ed., Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-century England (New York: Continuum, 2003 [2001].

Robinson, A. Mary F., Emily Brontë(Cambridge: John Wilson & Son, 1883).

Rogers, Katherine, ‘Sensitive Feminism Vs. Conventional Sympathy: Richardson & Fielding on Women,’ Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 9, no. 3 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1976).

Rowland, William, G., Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States (Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).

Sadoff, Diane, Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot, and Brontë on Fatherhood (Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 1982).

Sanders, Julie, Adaption and Appropriation(London: Routledge, 2016 [2006]).

Sage, Victor, & Lloyd Smith, Allan, Modern Gothic (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996)

Schmid, Susanne & Rossingon, Michael, History of Shelley Editions in English(London: Continuum, 2008).

Seymour, Miranda, Mary Shelley, (London: Picador, 2001 [2000]. 

Shorter, Clement King, Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1896).

Shorter, Clement, The Brontës: Life and Letters, vol. i (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 [1908]).

Slandish, Georgia, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti: The Literature of Disability (Reno: University of Nevada, 2005).

Smith, Margaret, (ed.), Charlotte Brontë Selected Letters, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Smith, Margaret, (ed.), The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, Volume One 1829-1847,(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).

Smith, Margaret, (ed.), The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, Volume Two 1848-1851,(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000).

Smith, Margaret, (ed.), The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, Volume Three 1848-1851,(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).

Spark, Muriel & Stanford, Derek, Emily Brontë: Her Life and Work (London: P. Owen, 1953).

Spark, Muriel, Mary Shelley: Child of Light(London: Constable, 1994 [1988]).

St. Clair, William, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Stoneman, Patsy, Brontë Transformations: The Cultural Dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights (London: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996).

Sunstein, Emily W., Mary Shelley, Romance and Reality (Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 1989).

Swinton Dry, Florence, Brontë Sources I: The Sources of "Wuthering Heights," Cambridge, 1937.

Tanner, Tony, ‘Introduction,’ Villette,Charlotte Brontë (London: Penguin, 1985).

Taylor, Barbara, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Thormählen, Marianne, ed., The Brontës in Context, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Todd, Janet, Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle(London: Profile, 2007).

Visick, Mary, The Genesis of Wuthering Heights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965 [1958]).

Waldstreicher, David, “The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828,’ Journal of the Early Republic, Winter 2010, Vol. 30, Issue 4. 

Walters, Denis, ed., The Nineteenth Century Novel (London: Routledge, 2001).

Wallace, Miriam L., Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment: British Novels from 1750 to 1832, (Surrey: Ashgate, 2009).

Wallraven, Miriam, ‘“Morality as Well as Intellectual Competent” to Deal with the Woman Question,’ A Writing Halfway Between Theory and Fiction: Mediating Feminism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Germany: Konigshausen & Neuman, 2007.

Weber, Brenda R., Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century, (London and New York: Routledge, 2016).

Wheatley, Kim, ed., Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture, (London: Frank Cass, 2003).

Whone, Clifford, ‘Where the Brontës Borrowed Books,’ Brontë Society Transactions, vol. ii, pt. lx. (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 1950).

Winnifrith, Tom, & Edward Chitham, Charlotte and Emily Brontë (London: Macmillian, 1989).

Wise, T. J. & Symington, J. A. The Lives, Friendships and Correspondence of the Brontë Family (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Shakespeare Head Press, 1932).

Wright, Jonathan Jeffrey, The Natural Leaders and their World: Politics, Culture and Society in Belfast 1801 ─1832 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012).

Yang, Caroline H., The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form (California: Stanford University Press, 2020).

Young, J. E., ‘Perdita’s Cottage: Mary Robinson in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s The Last Man,’ Notes and Queries, vol. 64, issue 1, 1st March 2017, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017.