A miniature unpublished manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old will go on sale for $1.25 million at a New York City book fair later this month
A miniature unpublished manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old will go on sale for $1.25 million at a New York City book fair later this month.
The manuscript, dated December 1829, has not been seen publicly since it was sold in New York in 1916, according to Henry Wessells, an associate at James Cummins Bookseller. It was recently found in a private collection, he said. "They wrote adventure stories, dramas, and verse in hand-made manuscript books filled with tiny handwriting intended to resemble print," the release says.Cummins along with Maggs Bros are the two dealers selling the work at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair on April 21 at the Park Avenue Armory.
"The following are attempts at rhyming of an inferior nature it must be acknowledged but they are nevertheless my best," Bronte writes on the manuscript's title page. And at the end of the book, she asserts creative control over the imaginary world created by herself and siblings.
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