![]() To my ear, they had also a peculiar music – melancholy, and elevating.”ĭr Gabriel Heaton, Sotheby’s English literature and historical manuscripts specialist, said: “With the Brontës, our love of their work is very much bound up with our interest in their lives. “I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. “I looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me – a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like poetry women generally write,” wrote Charlotte. It is the only surviving handwritten manuscript to feature some of Emily’s most famous poems, including No Coward Soul Is Mine, The Bluebell, and The Old Stoic, and was mentioned by Charlotte in her 1850 preface to Wuthering Heights, when she noted how she “accidentally lighted on a MS volume of verse in my sister Emily’s handwriting. ![]() There aren’t even really any letters out there by her, as she had no one to correspond with.” ![]() “Almost nothing of Emily’s survived – she essentially wrote Wuthering Heights and then parted the world without a trace. “It is the most important manuscript by Emily to come to market in a lifetime, and by far the most significant such manuscript to remain in private hands,” said the auction house. Sotheby’s described the manuscript of 29 poems by Emily as “incredibly rare”, valuing it at between £800,000 and £1.2m. ![]() The handwritten manuscript of Emily Brontë’s poems, with pencil corrections by Charlotte. ![]()
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