Friday 5 August 2022 01:16 AM Charlotte Bronte manuscript is returned to her home... almost 200 years after ... trends now
View
comments
Some 200 years after it was written by a 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte, a tiny manuscript has returned to her home.
The last of more than two dozen of the famous 'little books' in private hands was bought in April for 1.25million dollars (£973,000) after surfacing for the first time in more than a century. Its buyers, the charity Friends of the National Libraries, have now donated the 15-page book, pictured, to the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
It is smaller than a playing card, is dated December 1829 and contains ten poems by the Jane Eyre author. Its buyers have said it is 'inch for inch, possibly the most valuable literary manuscript ever to be sold'. It was last seen at auction in 1916.
The Charlotte Bronte miniature manuscript book was returned to the Bronte Parsonage Museum after being bought in April for £973,000
It is smaller than a playing card, is dated December 1829 and contains ten poems by the Jane Eyre author
It was last seen at auction in 1916 in New York, where it sold for 520 dollars.
Its whereabouts - and even its survival - were unknown
