In 1829-30, Charlotte Brontë was 13 and her brother Branwell Brontë 12. Creating fantasy worlds they called Angria and Glass Town, the siblings made teeny tiny books. Measuring less than 1 inch by 2 ...

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Charlotte Brontë’s attraction to the strange and horrific was an early vehicle for her love of storytelling. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons, V.M. Braganza and the Internet ...

There’s a moment halfway through Claire Harman’s superb new biography of Charlotte Brontë when it hits you just how quickly the whole Brontë phenomenon erupted and was over. In 1844, sisters Charlotte ...

A miniature unpublished manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old will go on sale for $1.25 million at a New York City book fair later this month. The work titled “A Book of ...

A bookseller in California has uncovered unpublished works by one of the most significant and popular Victorian writers, Charlotte Brontë, wedged between the pages of a biography formerly owned by the ...

Credit...From "Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre." Glynnis Fawkes’s graphic biography of Charlotte Brontë opens with the 20-year-old aspiring writer receiving a ...

A miniature, unpublished manuscript written by English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë at age 13 will be offered for sale for US$1.25 million later this month at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair.

In 1847, as Charlotte Brontë's first novel was bounced yet again to Haworth parsonage, her sisters Emily and Anne made a deal with a London publisher to bring out their novels, "Wuthering Heights" and ...