![]() ![]() ![]() And that manuscript-lost for years and only recently rediscovered inside a 19th-century schoolbook-just sold for $1.25 million, Barrons’ Josh Nathan-Kazis reports. That teenage author was Charlotte Brontë, who would later go on to write Jane Eyre and become one of English literature’s most acclaimed novelists. Nearly 200 years ago, a 13-year-old created a tiny book of poems in minuscule, print-like text and sewed it into a miniature book with needle and thread. When the manuscript went on the market, the museum says, the FNL secured the funding in just two weeks. Read on to learn more about why the long-lost book is being heralded as a landmark literary find. ![]() Friends of the National Libraries (FNL), a British nonprofit, purchased the book, which contains Brontë’s only remaining unpublished poetry, for $1.25 million, and will donate it to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England, per a museum release. Editor’s Note, April 26, 2022: A tiny manuscript by then-teenage author Charlotte Brontë will be returned to the parsonage she lived in her entire life. ![]()
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