Lost Brontë Library On The Block

Manuscripts acquired from the Brontë family in the 19th century, all but unseen for the past century, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s. Highlights from the Honresfield Library  include a handwritten manuscript of Emily Brontë’s poems, with pencil edits by Charlotte (photo above). It carries an estimate of $1.3 million to $1.8 million.

'The Honresfield Library took shape not far from the parsonage at the edge of the West Yorkshire moors, where Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother, Branwell (born between 1816 and 1820), grew up creating elaborate shared imaginary worlds. It was assembled starting in the 1890s by Alfred and William Law, two self-made mill owners who had grown up less than 20 miles from the Brontë home in Haworth (which is now the Brontë Parsonage Museum).'

Read more: The New York Times