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Ashworth : autograph manuscript of a prose fragment, ca. 1839.

BIB_ID
81822
Accession number
MA 2696.19
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
ca. 1839.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.6 x 11.6 cm
Notes
Written in a microscopic hand (p. 1).
Part of Ashworth, a story Brontë was writing at this time (cf. Christine Alexander's The early writings of Charlotte Brontë, Blackwell, 1983, p. 203-9).
Written on the inside of this folded sheet is a prose fragment beginning "Miss Percy was a pupil in Mrs. Turner's Seminary."
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Beginning "Alexander Percy esqre was a man much known" and ending "the head of her father's extensive establishment".