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Brotherton Collection12
English Literature4

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english literature1
english poetry1
letters1

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Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)2
Currer Bell2
Bronte Family1
Bronte, Patrick Branwell (1817-1848)1
Nussey, Ellen (1817-1897)1
Patrick Branwell Bronte1

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Two unfinished draft accounts of Emily Brontë
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Two unfinished draft accounts of Emily Brontë

c1855 - c1896

Written by Nussey, undated and unsigned; two drafts of the first part.

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'The Outcast Mother' Emily Brontë poem proofs

Apr 1860

Three page proofs of a poem by Emily Brontë, 'The Outcast Mother' (more correctly titled 'A Farewell to Alexandria'). Proofs from the posthumous publication in The Cornhill Magazine, dated in print '...

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Two letters from Charlotte Brontë to Mrs Shaen (Emily Winkworth)
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Mrs Shaen (Emily Winkworth)

November 1853

Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Mrs Shaen (Emily Winkworth) in which Brontë asks Shaen to arrange lodgings for her in London. The letter also mentions their mutual acquaintance Mrs Gaskell.

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Two letters from Charlotte Brontë to Mrs Shaen (Emily Winkworth)
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Mrs Shaen (Emily Winkworth)

November 1853

Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Mrs Shaen (Emily Winkworth) apologising for the last-minute cancellation of her trip to London.

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Ellen Nussey Brontëana
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Ellen Nussey letters and manuscripts

c1855 - c1896

Letters, mainly by Ellen Nussey, and manuscripts of hers concerning Emily Brontë

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Letter to Mr W S Williams
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Letter to W S Williams

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

20 November 1849

Letter from Charlotte Brontë to her publisher William Smith Williams requesting he send a copy of 'Shirley' to Harriet Martineau. Brontë also mentions receiving a letter from Mrs Gaskell [forwarded ...

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Nine letters from Charlotte Brontë to Amelia Ringrose
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Amelia Ringrose

31 Mar 1850

Letter commenting on the death of Amelia Ringrose’s mother, meditating on Brontë’s own experience of the death of her sisters and brother [Emily, Anne and Branwell], and requesting she does not t...

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The Angrian adventure'.
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The Angrian adventure

July - September 1836

Untitled and incomplete loose group of manuscripts, written in characteristic miniscule hand. Written in ink, with pages numbered in red ink in another hand. Tenth of a group of thirteen individual ma...

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Branwell Brontë

1830 - 1848

Manuscripts and letters created by Patrick Branwell Brontë (known as Branwell). The only son of Patrick and Maria Brontë, Branwell was bother to Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The manuscripts and lett...

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Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence

Brontë Family

1812-1925

A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...

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