Table of Contents
Preface to the second edition ix
Acknowledgements xi
Foreword xv
Introduction xvii
Maps of Haworth and Vicinity xxi
1 An Ambitious Man 1
2 The Promised Land 35
3 Good Neighbours and Kind Friends 72
4 A Stranger in a Strange Land 103
5 Charity-Children 134
6 Scribblemania 165
7 Emulation Rewarded 198
8 Angrians Arise! 234
9 The Infernal World 263
10 Losing Battles 298
11 Slavery 333
12 Patrick Boanerges 373
13 A Wish for Wings 409
14 Isolated in the Midst of Numbers 448
15 Monsieur Heger 484
16 Mrs Robinson 521
17 The Book of Rhymes 564
18 Three Tales 601
19 The Shadow in the House 641
20 Stripped and Bereaved 673
21 No Longer Invisible 709
22 The Society of Clever People 744
23 Running Away From Home 777
24 Villette 814
25 Tomkins Triumphant 850
26 So Happy 883
27 Saintliness, Treason and Plot 916
28 The End of All 954
List of Illustrations 980
Abbreviations 983
Notes 988
Index 1155