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

BIB_ID
81825
Accession number
MA 2696.22
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 (12 pages) ; 18.7 x 11.8 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.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Beginning "Miss Percy and Miss Thornton being both now settled in Yorkshire" and ending "but had had much to do with the manufacturers".