This article is dedicated to the study of the artistic originality of "Miss Mix", the parody by Francis Bret Harte, from the "Condensed Novels" cycle (1865). The author transforms the novels by the 19th century English writers, the Brontë sisters, into a short parody novel and uses the stylistic technique traditional for the parodies of this cycle -closeness to the original. The images of characters, storylines, a special Gothic atmosphere of parodied works are reproduced in the parody. To

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... ruct a comic image of the artistic reality of the novels by the English writers, Bret Harte uses burlesque and travesty hyperboles. The resulting comparison of the material of the works by the Brontë sisters and their style makes it possible, in a refracted form, but quite authentically, to reflect the artistic reality of the parodied works, to reveal the originality of the phenomenon of the work of the English writers, which is characterized by innovative, realistic features, but which is not free from the influence of the romantic tradition. The parody interpretation of the creative heritage of the Brontë sisters anticipated the conclusions of modern researchers about the national specifics of the development of English literature in the first half of the 19th century, which consisted in creative refraction of evolutionary processes, special attention to moral and aesthetic problems, and belief in the triumph of reason.