It is smaller than a deck of cards and contains ten poems by the author
A tiny book, containing ten unpublished poems, returns to its home in the presbytery in West Yorkshire, Haworth, where it was lovingly written in 1829 by the then 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë.
The booklet, according to the Daily Mail, was bought in April for $1.25 million (£973,000) after it surfaced for the first time in more than a century. Its buyers, the Friends of the National Libraries charity, donated the 15-page book to the Bronte Parsonage Museum, in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
It is smaller than a deck of cards and contains ten poems by the author. Its buyers stated that it is “word for word, perhaps the most valuable literary manuscript ever sold». It was last seen at auction in 1916 in New York, where it sold for $520.
His whereabouts – and even his survival – were unknown until he was presented in New York earlier this year.
At the time Anne Dinsdale, the museum’s chief curator, said she was “absolutely delighted” at the news that the book would be returning to the place where it was written.
He said: “It is always touching when an item belonging to the Brodet family is returned to its homeland and this last little book returning to the place where it was written and thought lost is very special to us».
The tiny books created by Charlotte Brodet and her siblings when they were children have long been an object of fascination for Brodet scholars and admirers.
Brodet’s four children, Charlotte, Anne, Emily and Branwell, developed a sophisticated fantasy world. They wrote adventurous stories, dramas and verses in books filled with tiny graphics. This narrow, enchanted world of their childhood imagination fueled the creation of some of the most famous and popular novels ever written such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, etc. a.
The tiny manuscript, entitled ‘A Book Of Rhymes’ is a collection of 10 poems written by 13-year-old Charlotte Brodet.
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