11–12 ‘Faith breaks every Chain, / And makes us truly free’ in ‘Who gave Himself for us’, p. 19–20, 23–24.ĩ Wesley, ‘So fast these grievous, fleshly Chains, / My slothful Spirit bind’ in ‘For the Spirit of Prayer’, p. Chitham (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979) hereafter PAB, followed by poem number and lines.Ĩ Wesley, ‘Free Grace’, in John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 4th edition (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1743), p. 5.ħ Anne Brontë, ‘Despondency’, in The Poems of Anne Brontë: A New Text and Commentary, ed. Eliot, Four Quartets (London: Faber and Faber, 1954), Burnt Norton i, l. 13–4.ĥ John Wesley, Moriar ut Te Videam! A Prayer for Humility, in John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems 2n edition (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1742), p. Jenkins (London and New York: Methuen, 1982), I v, ll. Gill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), ll. Chitham (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) hereafter PEB, followed by poem number, title/first line and lines.Ĥ William Wordsworth, ‘There was a Time’, in William Wordsworth, ed. 48–70 Jessica Muller, ‘Human Nature and Confinement in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights’, Journal of Student Research, 2 (2012), 75–8.ģ Emily Brontë, The Poems of Emily Brontë, ed. Crouse, ‘“This Shattered Prison”: Confinement, Control And Gender in Wuthering Heights’, Brontë Studies, 33.3 (2008), 179–191 Lyn Pykett, Emily Brontë (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989), in particular ch. 139.Ģ Among the many sources on the subject see: Jamie S. by Marianne Thormählen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. As a former employee and a Life Member of the Society I particularly deplore this action.1 Janet Gezari, ‘The Poetry of the Brontës’, in The Brontës in Context, ed.

The 'one exception' to the 'wholehearted assistance and support' Barker met was the Bronte society itself, whose 'Director and Council felt it necessary for their own commercial reasons, to refuse permission for the reproduction of a carefully chosen selection of Bronte drawings. I may be wrong, but I believe that the acknowledgement 'to Ian Beck, consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician, who saw me through the worst year of my existence' is a first in literary scholarship. Lest anyone doubt the elbow grease and emotional turmoil that went into Barker's Bronte biography, the Acknowledgements paint a vibrant picture of rows at home, where 'parents, husband and children' have 'suffered endlessly (but not always in silence)'. Personally, I hope she pens dozens more - so long as she keeps up her remarkable line in Acknowledgements, which she has developed into an artform.

There are those who might quake at another fat tome about the Brontes from prize-winning biographer Juliet Barker.

The Brontës by Juliet Barker