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

Record ID: 
81824
Accession number: 
MA 2696.21
Author: 
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Credit: 
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description: 
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes: 

In a microscopic hand.
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).
High reserve.

Summary: 

Beginning "Leeds and the clothiers of Bradford" and ending "Mr. De-Cappell knocked / the ashes out of his pipe, rung for his horse, and departed."

Provenance: 
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.