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 ...

A miniature book by the 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë, containing perhaps her last unseen poems, has been purchased by a charity and will be donated to the Brontë Parsonage Museum. By Jennifer ...

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 ...

Two hundred years after her birth, Charlotte Brontë's rage over social expectations for women and thwarted ambitions is as relevant as ever. A new biography by Claire Harman makes the "Jane Eyre" ...

The 3.8in by 2.5in A Book of Ryhmes (as she misspelled it) contains 10 poems by the later author of Jane Eyre. Dated "Haworth Dec 17 1829", its first page reads: "By Charlotte Bronte, Sold By Nobody, ...

Some 200 years after it was written by a 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte, a tiny manuscript has returned to her home. The last of more than two dozen of the famous 'little books' in private hands was ...

A bookseller in California has uncovered unpublished works by one of the most significant and popular Victorian writers, Charlotte Brontë, wedged between the pages of a biography formerly owned by the ...

A miniature, unpublished manuscript written by English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë at age 13 will be offered for sale for US$1.25 million later this month at the New York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