Charlotte Brontë manuscripts
Brontë family manuscripts: an introduction
Francis O'Gorman, Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds, introduces the Brontë family manuscripts, part of the original Brotherton Collection.
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Charlotte Brontë manuscripts
Description of Charlotte Bronte material in Bronte Family Manuscripts.
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Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell
Description of letters from Charlotte Brontë & Elizabeth Gaskell describing each other.
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Revd. Arthur Bell Nicholls
Description of A B Nicholls letter to Ellen Nussey following Charlotte Brontë's death.
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Branwell Brontë poetry
Description of Branwell Bronte manuscripts in the Brotherton Collection, part 1
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Branwell Brontë artwork
Description of Branwell Brontë artwork in Brontë family manuscripts collection
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Branwell Brontë 'Our Lady of Greif'
Description of Branwell Bronte's sketch '‘Our Lady of Grief’.
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The Brotherton collection of writing by Charlotte Brontë provides uniquely important biographical evidence.
Her exercise books from her time in Brussels at the beginning of the 1840s shows her efforts to learn fluent French and to translate Walter Scott, as well as the beginning of a striking meditation, in French, on 'L'Immensité de Dieu'.
It is only a pity that there are no surviving comments by M. Heger, her teacher and the man for whom she formed a powerful attraction. There are glimpses of opinions on religious subjects and her desire for a new Dr Arnold to rid the Anglican church of Puseyites.
