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Charlotte Brontë manuscripts

BC MS 19c Brontë/B4/2
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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BC MS 19c Brontë/F1
Maria Brontë manuscript.
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BC MS 19c Brontë/C2
Description of Charlotte Bronte material in Bronte Family Manuscripts.
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BC MS 19c Brontë/C3/a
Description of letters from Charlotte Brontë & Elizabeth Gaskell describing each other.
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A B Nicholls letters to Ellen Nussey
Description of A B Nicholls letter to Ellen Nussey following Charlotte Brontë's death.
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BC MS 19c Brontë/B13
Description of Branwell Bronte manuscripts in the Brotherton Collection, part 1
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BC MS 19c Brontë/B1/2
Introduction to Branwell Bronte's early manuscripts.
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BC MS 19c Brontë/B4/2
Description of Branwell Brontë artwork in Brontë family manuscripts collection
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BC MS 19c Brontë/B4/10
Description of Branwell Bronte's sketch '‘Our Lady of Grief’.
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BC MS 19c Brontë/C14
Ellen Nussey's description of Emily Brontë.
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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.

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