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Total number of records: 134

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Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-18559
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Archive Collection

Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence

Brontë Family

1812-1925

A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...

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Blavatnik Honresfield Library

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Patrick Branwell Brontë; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)

c17th - 19th century

Manuscripts, letters and books belonging to the Blavatnik Honresfield Library, collected during the late nineteenth century by William Law. The manuscript items relate to the Brontë family, and inc...

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Archive Series

Letters from Charlotte Brontë to various correspondents

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

1849 - 1850

Removed from bindings. Typescript transcriptions included.

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Letter to Miss Alexander
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Miss Alexander

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

18 March 1850

Letter begins, "My Dear Madam, I received your first note as well as your second, and if I did not answer it, my silence arose, not from indifference to the kind feeling it expressed but simply from t...

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Letter to Mr W S Williams
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Letter to W S Williams

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

21 August 1849

Letter from Charlotte Brontë to her publisher William Smith Williams discussing possible titles for her new novel including 'Hollow's Mill', 'Fieldhead' and 'Shirley' [her favoured title], and reques...

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Letter to Mr W S Williams
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Letter to W S Williams

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

20 November 1849

Letter from Charlotte Brontë to her publisher William Smith Williams requesting he send a copy of 'Shirley' to Harriet Martineau. Brontë also mentions receiving a letter from Mrs Gaskell [forwarded ...

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Letter to Mr G H Lewes
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Mr G H Lewes

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

23 November 1850

Letter begins "My dear Sir, I am glad to hear that Miss Marineau's little story in the 'The Leader' touched you and made you cry", discusses her poor disposition 'I am on the worst terms with myself'...

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Letter to Ellen Nussey
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

c. Feb - Mar 1838

Letter begins, "My Dear Ellen, We were at breakfast when your note reached me and I consequently write in a great hurry - Your trials seem to thicken - I trust God with either remove them or - give yo...

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The search after hapiness [sic.] : a tale

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Dinan, Carolyn; Burnett, T A J (1937-)

1969

Edited by T.A.J. Burnett.

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Stancliffe's Hotel

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Glen, Heather

2003

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Poems of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë : with, Cottage poems

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Brontë, Emily (1818-1848); Brontë, Anne (1820-1849); Brontë, Patrick (1777-1861)

1893

Includes "Note": p. [vii]-viii.

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