Collected Works Brontë, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne: Novels and Poems | v.1.0 | 5 Mar 2017

[pynch]

This volume collects the books of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë (Wikipedia) which were published in their lifetimes (or shortly after):

Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë
Poems.
1846

Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre.
1847

Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights.
1847

Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey.
1847

Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
1848

Charlotte Brontë
Shirley.
1849

Charlotte Brontë
Villette.
1853

Charlotte Brontë
The Professor.
1857

All books have been fully proofed: Poems and Villette against early editions, and the other novels—due to the large amount of typographical errors in the original books, especially in those of Emily and Anne—against the critical and quite rare Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontës, which uses the first editions (or, in the case of The Professor, the manuscript) as copy texts. The editors’s corrections for their texts of Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Wuthering Heights from the appendix of The Professor have been incorporated. As my book scanning budget is a little exhausted at the moment, you have to wait a bit longer for the critical Villette edition.

Hidden in the code you can find (if you delete “display: none;” from the <ins> element in the stylesheet) possible emendations and undocumented deviations of the critical editions from the first edition texts (which are either mistakes or simply unaccounted-for emendations).

A word of caution regarding The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: all online e-texts that I have seen (with the exception of the yet unfinished Wikisource text, but including those available on MR) are based on the 1920 John Lane edition, which is derived from a heavily expurgated 1854 Parlour Library edition that leaves out about 30 pages of the text.

There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables.

Best regards,
pynch.

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[Jellby]

Thank you!

May I ask you to fix the author metadata? Instead of

<dc:creator opf:file-as="Brontë, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne" opf:role="aut">Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë</dc:creator>

it should be:

<dc:creator opf:file-as="Brontë, Charlotte" opf:role="aut">Charlotte Brontë</dc:creator>
<dc:creator opf:file-as="Brontë, Emily" opf:role="aut">Emily Brontë</dc:creator>
<dc:creator opf:file-as="Brontë, Anne" opf:role="aut">Anne Brontë</dc:creator>

[litemotif]

Thank you very much, Pynch.

I eagerly await future versions.

[pynch]

Originally Posted by Jellby

Thank you!

May I ask you to fix the author metadata? Instead of

<dc:creator opf:file-as="Brontë, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne" opf:role="aut">Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë</dc:creator>

it should be:

<dc:creator opf:file-as="Brontë, Charlotte" opf:role="aut">Charlotte Brontë</dc:creator>
<dc:creator opf:file-as="Brontë, Emily" opf:role="aut">Emily Brontë</dc:creator>
<dc:creator opf:file-as="Brontë, Anne" opf:role="aut">Anne Brontë</dc:creator>

… which would show only one of the writers as author in some devices (my Sony, for example), so I don’t intend to do that.