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Wuthering Heights. And Agnes Grey
Brontë, Emily (1818-1848); Brontë, Anne (1820-1849); Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
1850
The professor; Emma ; Poems
Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Brontë, Emily (1818-1848); Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)
[19-?]
Illustrated plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.
The poems of Emily Jane Brontë and Anne Brontë
Brontë, Emily (1818-1848); Brontë, Anne (1820-1849); Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
1934
One of 500 copies printed. "Memoirs of Emily and Anne Brontë, written by their sister Charlotte," p. xxi-[xxiv]
Sender: Robinson, Henry
Recipient: Brontë, Charlotte
Letters: 1
Date(s): 23 Jul [1851? - actually dated 1837]
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no.70 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Letter from an admirer of "Jane Eyre" and "Shirley"; refers to a disagreement (apparently over an epitaph for his cousin) at Keighley church. Typed transcript: original, dated 1837, at Brontë Parsonage Museum; date altered, probably correctly, to 1851 in Shakespeare Head Brontë, Letters, vol. 3, p.264, where it is said to have been enclosed, in a letter from Charlotte to Miss Nussey, dated 27 July 1851. ("Shirley" first published in 1849).
Sender: Brontë, Charlotte
Recipient: Ingledew, Mrs
Letters: 1
Date(s): [c 1846 - 1849]
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C9, in case lettered: "Charlotte Brontë Hartlepool Letter"
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: A letter written from Hartlepool, undated, in the handwriting of Charlotte Brontë, signed "Currer Bell". The letter refers to a Miss Illidge and to the establishment of a school, and speaks of the governess difficulty as a formidable one. It then goes on to criticise Hartlepool as a "filthy place". This letter was found in a volume of the "Poems" in a London bookshop, and acquired by Mr J.A. Symington, and after considerable research, criticism in the "Yorkshire Post" and the TLS in August 1924, it was definitely decided, on the authority of the British Museum, that the document was certainly genuine, and threw a new light on the period between 1846 and 1850 when Charlotte was anxious to find some employment. The original document is preserved, together with the criticism and correspondence relating to it, in a small quarto volume.
Bound with the original are a photo-facsimile and a printed version; vol. 9, no.1 of "The Microcosm", with another photo-facsimile and printed version and a note by J A Symington on the subject entitled "An unrecorded letter by Charlotte Brontë". At the end are a number of cuttings together with a letter from the bookbinder Zaehnsdorf, occasioned by a charge in the "Sphere" by Clement Shorter that the letter was a forgery.
Sender: Brontë, Charlotte
Recipient: Gore, Mrs
Letters: 1
Date(s): 28 Jun [n.y.]
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C7, in volume of 9 autograph letters bound together, with transcripts, lettered "Charlotte Brontë Autograph Letters"
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: Thanking her for an invitation which she is unable to accept owing to her departure from town.
Sender: Brontë, Charlotte
Recipient: Lewes, G H (husband of "George Eliot")
Letters: 1
Date(s): 23 Nov 1850
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C5a, unbound
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: A dissertation on the dreariness of life; also referring to a story by Miss Martineau in "The Leader" edited by Lewes; further chaffing him on the pious disposition evinced by that paper to walk bodily back to the "True Fold". Commenting on Cardinal Wiseman and Father Newman. "I am glad to learn that Miss Martineau's little story in the Leader touched you and made you cry. I thought it a sample of real suffering; a case piteous, cureless, voiceless...." "I have to congratulate you on the pious disposition evinced by the Leader to walk bodily back to the True Fold. There is something promising and touching in the tone you have lately assumed - a something which will kindle the glow of affection in the heart of Cardinal Archbishop Wiseman..."
Sender: Brontë, Charlotte
Recipient: Nussey, Miss Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Aug 1852
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C7, in volume of 9 autograph letters bound together, with transcripts, lettered "Charlotte Brontë Autograph Letters"
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: On Patrick Brontë's ill-health. 2pp. 8vo.
"Papa has varied occasionally since I wrote to you last -Monday was a very bad day - his spirits sunk painfully - Tuesday and yesterday however were much better and to-day he seems wonderfully well. The prostration of spirits which accompanies anything like a relapse is almost the most difficult point to manage ..."
Sender: Brontë, Charlotte
Recipient: Ringrose, Amelia
Letters: 3
Date(s): 6 Apr 1850 - 11 Jun 1851; 1 n.d.
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C7, in volume of 9 autograph letters bound together, with transcripts, lettered: Charlotte Brontë Autograph Letters
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: 1) 3pp. 8vo. Concerning the writer's health, and discussing the subject of Miss Ringrose and her indecision about marrying Joe Taylor.
2) 2pp. 8vo. Discussing her life-long friend, Ellen Nussey, and the possibilities of her marrying.
3) 2pp. 8vo. Acknowledgment of a letter from her which had given the writer great pleasure.
Sender: Brontë, Charlotte
Recipient: Ringrose, Amelia
Letters: 13
Date(s): 26 Feb 1848 - 7 Jun 1851
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C4, in volume "Letters to Amelia Ringrose, 1848-1851"
Category: 19c1 Female
Sender: Brontë, Charlotte
Recipient: Wheelwright, Laetitia E
Letters: 1
Date(s): Jun 1852
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C7, in volume of 9 autograph letters bound together, with transcripts, lettered: Charlotte Brontë Autograph Letters
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: 1p. 8vo. Concluding portion of letter only.