The brontes in brussels, p.16
The Brontës in Brussels, page 16
MacEwan, Helen, Through Belgian Eyes: Charlotte Brontë’s Troubled Brussels Legacy, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, Portland, Toronto, 2017
Ruijssenaars, Eric, Charlotte Brontë’s Promised Land: The Pensionnat Heger and Other Brontë Places in Brussels, Brontë Society, Haworth, Yorkshire, 2000. Includes some interesting articles by literary pilgrims about their visits to the Pensionnat and their reflections on the sisters’ time there, for example, Adeline Trafton’s ‘A Visit to Charlotte Brontë’s School at Brussels’ (1871) and Marion Spielmann’s ‘Charlotte Brontë in Brussels: A Nursery of Genius’ (1916).
Ruijssenaars E. The Pensionnat Revisited: More Light Shed on the Brussels of the Brontës, Dutch Archives, Leiden, 2003
Spielmann, M.H., The Inner History of the Brontë–Heger Letters, Chapman and Hall, London, 1919
Smith, Margaret, ed., The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, Volume I, 1829–1847, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995
Index
Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë), 1
Allée Défendue, 1, 2, 3, 4
Allée Verte, 1, 2, 3
Athénée Royal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Avenue Louise 1, 2, 3
Bassompierre, Louise De, 1
Bassompierre, Paulina De, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Beck, Mme, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Belliard steps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Belliard, General Augustin Daniel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
BELvue Museum (formerly Hôtel Bellevue), 1, 2, 3
Biefve, Edouard de, 1, 2
Boitsfort see Watermael-Boitsfort
Boulevard du Jardin Botanique, 1, 2, 3
boulevards, 1, 2, 3, 4
Brabant, Dukes of, 1, 2
Branwell, Elizabeth (‘Aunt Branwell’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Branwell, Maria, 1
Bretton, John Graham (also known as ‘Dr John’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Bretton, Mrs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
British Library, 1
British Museum, 1
Brontë, Anne, 1, 2, 3, 4
Brontë, Charlotte, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Brontë, Emily, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Brontë, Patrick, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudule, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Cemetery, Brussels (in Evere), 1, 2, 3
Cemetery, old Protestant, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Chapelle Royale (Protestant chapel), 1, 2, 3
Chaussée d’Ixelles, 1, 2, 3
Chaussée de Louvain, 1, 2
Church of Notre Dame du Sablon, 1, 2
Church of St Jacques sur Coudenberg, 1, 2, 3, 4
Church of St Jean Baptiste au Béguinage in Brussels, 1
Church of St Jean Baptiste in Villette, 1, 2
Cleopatra (painting described in Villette), 1, 2
Cluysenaar, Jean-Pierre, 1, 2
Coudenberg Palace, 1, 2, 3, 4
Crimsworth, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Cumberland, Gerald, 1, 2
Dixon family, 1, 2
Domus Isabellae, 1
Emanuel, Paul (‘M. Paul’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Escalier de la Bibliothèque see Belliard steps
Escaliers des Juifs (Jewish steps), 1, 2
Faubourg Clotilde, 1
Faubourgs in the nineteenth century, 1, 2
Fossé-aux-Chiens, 1
Galerie in Pensionnat garden, 1, 2
Galerie Ravenstein, 1, 2
Galeries St-Hubert, 1
Care Centrale, 1, 2, 3, 4
Gare de l’Allée Verte, 1
Gare du Midi, 1
Gare du Nord, 1, 2
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 1, 2, 3
Geefs, Fanny, 1, 2
Geefs, Guillaume, 1, 2, 3
Grand Place, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Grand Serment des Arbalétriers see Guild of Crossbowmen
Gudule, St (patron saint of Brussels), 1, 2
Guild of Crossbowmen, 1, 2
Guimard, Barnabé, 1, 2
Hamal, Alfred De, 1, 2
Haworth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Heger, Claire Zoë née Parent, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Heger, Constantin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Heger, Louise, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Heger, Paul, 1, 2, 3
Henri, Frances Evans, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Horta, Victor, 1
Hôtel Astoria 1
Hôtel Cluysenaar, 1
Hôtel Crécy in Villette, 1, 2
Hôtel de Hollande, 1
Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall), 1, 2, 3
Hôtel Ravenstein, 1, 2, 3
Isabella, Archduchess, 1, 2, 3
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Jenkins, Rev. Evan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Jonction Nord-Midi (rail tunnel linking North and South Stations), 1, 2
kiosque à musique (bandstand), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Labassecour/les Labassecouriens, 1, 2, 3
Laeken, Palace, 1
Lebel, Monsieur, 1
Leopold I of Belgium, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Leopold II of Belgium, 1, 2, 3
London Bridge Wharf, 1, 2, 3
Macdonald, Frederika, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Michael, St (patron saint of Brussels), 1, 2
Mont des Arts, 1, 2, 3, 4
Moore, Hortense (in Shirley), 1
Moore, Robert (in Shirley), 1
Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1, 2
Musée royal de Mariemont, 1
Nicholls, Arthur Bell, 1, 2, 3, 4
Notre-Dame du Sablon (church), 1, 2
Nussey, Ellen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Ommegang, 1
Ostend and Ostend ‘packet’ (steamship), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Palais de la Nation (Parliament building), 1, 2
Palais des Beaux-Arts (‘Bozar’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Parc de Bruxelles (park by Rue Royale), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Parsonage, Haworth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Passage de la Bibliothèque see Belliard steps
Pelet, Monsieur, 1, 2
Pensionnat Heger, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Père Silas, 1, 2, 3, 4
Philip II of Spain, 1, 2
Place de la Monnaie, 1, 2
Place des Martyrs, 1, 2
Place du Musée, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Place Royale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
plaque, Brontë Society in Brussels, 1, 2
Porte de Crécy in Villette, 1
Porte de Flandre, 1
Porte de Hal, 1
Porte de Louvain, 1, 2, 3, 4
Porte de Namur, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Professor, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Reuter, Zoraïde, 1, 2, 3
Rochester, Mr, 1, 2
Rue Baron Horta, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rue d’Isabelle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Rue de la Madeleine, 1, 2
Rue de la Putterie, 1
Rue de la Régence, 1, 2
Rue de Louvain, 1, 2
Rue des Douze Apôtres, 1, 2
Rue Fossette, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rue Montagne de la Cour, 1, 2, 3
Rue Notre Dame aux Neiges, 1, 2
Rue Ravenstein, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rue Royale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Rue Terarken, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Rue Villa Hermosa, 1, 2
Salle de la Grande Harmonie, 1, 2, 3
Senne (river), 1, 2
Shirley (Charlotte Brontë), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Smith, George, 1, 2
Spielmann, Marion Harry, 1, 2
Taylor, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Taylor, Martha, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Taylor, Mary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Terrasse, La, 1, 2, 3
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1, 2
Trafton, Adeline, 1
Victoria, Queen, 1, 2, 3
Villette (Charlotte Brontë), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Walravens, Mme, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Waterloo, Battle of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Watermael-Boitsfort cemetery, 1
Weightman, William, 1, 2
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 2, 3, 4
Wheelwright family, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
William I of the Netherlands, 1, 2
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë), 1, 2, 3
Yorke, Jessy, 1, 2, 3
Yorke, Rose, 1, 2
Zinner, Joachim, 1
About the Author
Helen MacEwan is a retired translator and teacher who lives in Brussels. The founder of the Brussels Brontë Group, she organises talks and guided literary tours focusing on Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s time in the city. She is also the author of Down the Belliard Steps: Discovering the Brontës in Brussels, Through Belgian Eyes: Charlotte Brontë’s Troubled Brussels Legacy and Winifred Gérin: Biographer of the Brontës.
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