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When it comes to Englandâs literary heritage, few figures command quite as much fascination as the Brontë sisters. Over two centuries on from their births, Charlotte (1816â1855), Emily (1818â1848), and Anne (1820â1849) remain celebrated figures, heralded for works like
Jane Eyre,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, respectively.
Emily was relatively little-known in her lifetime, having written her famous tragic love story in 1847, a year before her death of tuberculosis aged just 30. Now, however, sheâs regarded as a canonical writer â and in exciting news for bibliophiles, a volume of her handwritten poems is part of a trove of literary artefacts going up for sale at Sothebyâs.
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An âincredibly rareâ handwritten manuscript of Emily Brontëâs poems, with pencil corrections by her sister Charlotte, is going up for auction as part of a âlost libraryâ that has been out of public view for nearly a century.
The collection was put together by Arthur Bell Nicholls, the widower of Charlotte, who of the six Brontë children lived the longest, dying in 1855 at the age of 38. Nicholls sold the majority of the surviving Brontë manuscripts in 1895 to the notorious bibliophile and literary forger Thomas James Wise. The collectors and brothers Alfred and William Law, who grew up 20 miles from the Brontë family home in Haworth, then acquired some of the familyâs heirlooms from Wise, including the manuscript of Emilyâs poems, and the familyâs much-annotated copy of A History of British Birds, a book immortalised in Jane Eyre.
“I wanted to claim Charlotte Brontë as one of our own because she is,” said Irish actress Maxine Linehan, who portrays Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, in the one-woman show Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte by William Luce.
“Charlotte’s schoolmates have remarked that she spoke with an Irish accent,” says Linehan. “Her father, Patrick, was born in County Down at Emdale, Drumballyroney, near Rathfriland, about 20 miles from my own home place in Newry. The more research I did, the more I saw the profound influence their Irish heritage had on Charlotte and her sisters.”
Patrick, whose family name was originally Brunty, an Anglicized version of O’Pronntaigh – a family of hereditary scribes (appropriate, that) – was the oldest of 10 children. His father, Hugh, a farm laborer had eloped with his mother, Alice McClory, when her family objected to the marriage, perhaps because Hugh was an outsider, born in southern Ireland and adopted by an uncle – a tale that resona
Good fan fiction can be some of the most rewarding reading. Most people have read something that can be called fanfic, whether it’s Virgil’s “Aeneid,” based on Homer, or “Paradise Lost,” based on the Bible, or a more modern title, such as John Gardner’s “Grendel” or “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” by Seth Grahame-Smith.
Since their books have been wildly popular and critically acclaimed for nearly 200 years, and since they left such a small body of work, the Brontës’ novels often inspire fan fiction, some of it great literature in its own right.
Probably the best and most famous is “The Wide Sargasso Sea” by Jean Rhys. Rhys was an established author when she wrote this prequel to “Jane Eyre,” and it has been called Rhys’s best novel. It tells Bertha’s story, from girlhood to her regretful marriage to Edward Rochester. In this post-colonial novel, both main characters serve as narrators and the book provides fascinating insights on its inspir
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