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Ashley MS 187
- Record Id:
- 040-001978249
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001408.0x00028b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165356606.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 187
- Title:
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The History of ''Angria'': fragments by Patrick Branwell Brontë
- Scope & Content:
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Part of ''Angria and the Angrians'', Branwell Brontë’s history of Angria (the fictional land he created with Charlotte Brontë), written between1834 and 1839. Autograph fair copy with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of eighteen octavo leaves of cream wove paper, and on one side only of another. Watermark ''J Green & Son/1834''. The leaves were bound out of sequence, given the title ''A New Year Story'', and erroneously described as a single tale, by T. J. Wise. The earliest fragment is dated 7 January 1836. The latest date given on the manuscript is 31 August 1836, but Victor Neufeldt has the latest fragment dating from 1837 (see Victor Neufeldt, ed., The Works of Patrick Branwell Brontë, vol. iii (New York; London: Garland, 1999)).
The fragments comprise six parts, listed here in their original chronological sequence:
1. Begins ''This is the first of January 1836''. Signed and dated at the head (f. 1a) ''P B Bronte/January 7th/1836''. There is a gap in the narrative between ff. 1b and 13 (this is supplied by material in the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth: MSS. 254 and Bonnell 150 and 152). ff. 1, 1b, 13, 13b.
2. Begins ''Oh dear Vernon struggle not so''. ff. 6, 6b.
3. Begins ''O Lord God Creator of heaven and Earth''. Signed and dated at the beginning of ''Chapter II'' (f. 7b) ''P B Btë/May 4th/1836''. Four further pages of the same narrative are in the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. ff. 7, 7b, 11, 11b.
4. Begins ''All of course the sole other Governors'' and originally consisted of six chapters, of which the end of the second chapter (f. 10a), ''CHAPTER IIId'' (ff. 10, 10b, 12), ''CHAPTER IVth'', signed and dated ''P B Bte Aug 20th 1836'' (ff. 12, 12b), the end of the fifth chapter (ff. 16, 16b), and ''CHAPTER VIth'', signed and dated ''P B B/Aug 24/ 1836'' at the beginning and ''P B B/Aug 31/1836'' at the end (ff. 16b-19), remain. On f. 19b are sketches and four lines of verse by Branwell, together with various single words in Greek. ff. 10, 10b, 12, 12b, 16-19.
5. Begins ''discovered that in this apartment were gathered''. Undated. ff. 8-9b, 15, 15b. 14. 14b.
6. Begins ''"All the same - where''s a worse than myself."''. Undated 1837. ff. 2-5b.
Further fragments of Angrian and the related Verdopolitan (Glass Town) history are found in Ashley MSS. 157, 159, 2468, 2469 and Additional MS. 34255. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 84.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001978249 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS 187 : The History of ''Angria'': fragments by Patrick Branwell Brontë - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[0060]/040-001978249
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165356606.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1836
- End Date:
- 1837
- Date Range:
- 1836-1837
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: octavo
Foliation: ff. iii+19
- Arrangement:
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Leaves from six sections of a longer chronicle, bound out of sequence
- Publications:
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For a complete transcript of ‘Angria and the Angrians’, and details of manuscript sources see Victor Neufeldt, ed., The Works of Patrick Branwell Brontë, vols. ii-iii (New York; London: Garland, 1999).
For facsimiles of parts of Ashley MS 187 (and some other parts of ‘Angria and the Angrians’) see The Shakespeare Head Brontë: Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington, eds., Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and P. B. Brontë, vol. ii (Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1938): pp. 112, 113, 119, 120 (Part 1); pp. 121, 122 (Part 2); pp. 171-174 (Part 3); pp. 223-224, 234 (Part 4); 259-266 (Part 5); pp. 273-280 (Part 6).
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Romantics and Victorians, (online), 20 February 2014-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)