“As Patti Smith writes in her introduction to the first-ever publication of A Book of Ryhmes, the poet, a thirteen-year-old Charlotte Brontë, must have transcribed her ‘ryhmes’ (the misspelling is on her title page) into the tiny handmade book while sitting at the kitchen table in Haworth Parsonage. The 1829 winter was severe, Barbara Heritage tells us, and we all know something of the circumstances of the Brontë family at this time whether or not we realize that many of the myths have been reconsidered by researchers. Charlotte’s adolescent poetry may be rather derivative, but it was very accomplished for a child of her age and circumstances, and it was obviously heartfelt. Charlotte aspired to being a serious poet, while at the same time she imagined her verse to be written by the characters who populated the imaginary worlds she shared with her siblings.”
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