Why Charlotte Brontë’s tiny £1m pamphlet proves that little things mean a lot | Louisa Young
Aug 07, 2022
3 minutes
Last week one of Charlotte Brontë’s “little books” finally made it home to where it was written, the Parsonage at Haworth. It’s a tiny pamphlet, 10cm by 6cm, handmade and handwritten by Charlotte when she was 13.
It’s hard to imagine anything more fragile. It was lost for a century, last seen in 1916 at auction in New York where it sold for $520. I had the honour of trying (and failing) to read it
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