The Brontės were all consummate literary borrowers, although the precise mechanics of their borrowings hasn't yet been fully laid bare.
What can be ascertained is that the seven Brontė novels contain something in the line of 1100 allusions and quotations.
The texts linked to the left represent a (growing) list of source materials for these literary antecedents.
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