Brain on strike - started off quite well - most of the bottom half and then nothing! If I get one or two more, perhaps I can manage the rest of it(!!!)
1 across (5,6) Writer's name in 4 Bronte version (no letters whatsoever)- 4 down to which I think it may refer is In village school I write and you (we hope) (4): 9 across (9) where 4s can write as well (again no letters) 14 across (8,6) series starting in the cool of the evening with Joseph and Mary ending with bitterness and vagrancy ?I???I??,?????. to name but a few!