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- Record Id:
- 040-002056395
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002056382
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001102.0x000016
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165356504.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 43483
- Title:
- Emily Brontë, 'The Gondal Poems'. George Smith Memorial Bequest Vol X
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph volume of juvenilia, entitled ''The Gondal Poems'', by Emily Jane Brontë with pencil notes and headings throughout by Charlotte Brontë. The poems were ''Transcribed February 1844'' (sic, f. 1), with additions made later in the same year and down to 13 May 1848 (see f. 346) (the first poem is dated 6 Mar. 1837).
Several items are initialled ''A.B.N.'' and relate to Arthur Bell Nicholls, Charlotte''s husband who subsequently owned the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002056382
040-002056395 - Is part of:
- Add MS 43474-43487 : GEORGE SMITH MEMORIAL BEQUEST
Add MS 43483 : Emily Brontë, 'The Gondal Poems'. George Smith Memorial Bequest Vol X - Hierarchy:
- 032-002056382[0004]/040-002056395
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 43474-43487
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165356504.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1844
- End Date:
- 1848
- Date Range:
- 1844-1848
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
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Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls, the husband of Charlotte Brontë inherited the manuscript following her death in 1855. It remained in Nicholls''s possession until his death on 13th December 1906. The manuscript was purchased at auction (lot 55, Sotheby''s on 26th July 1907) by Mrs George Smith.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Bequested by George Smith.
- Publications:
- First published from this manuscript in its entirety by Helen Brown and Joan Mott, Gondal Poems by Emily Jane Brontë in 1938. For bibliographical details see this work and The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë (ed. C. W. Hatfield, 1941), in which the present manuscript is referred to as B.
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Romantics and Victorians, (online), 20 February 2014-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)