Abbreviations
This book employs a system of abbreviations for citing frequently quoted primary texts. The full reference to each work and edition is provided in a footnote on their first citation, as well as in the bibliography, with further references incorporated into the body of the argument.
- AA
An Autobiography
- AS
Autobiographical Sketches
- BC
Barchester Towers
- EW
Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë
- FA
‘Farewell to Angria’ in Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal
- HC
‘Memoir of Hartley Coleridge’ in Poems
- JE
Jane Eyre
- LCB
The Last Chronicle of Barset
- LD
Little Dorrit
- Life
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
- NC
The Newcomes
- NE
‘Novels and their Endings’ in The Works of John Ruskin
- SH
The Small House at Allington
- TP
The Professor