Collection items

A collection of tracts, written by the Brontë sist...

Book, Children's book

A Collection of Tracts is a Sunday School ‘reward’ book for young readers. It contains a select choice of moral tales th...

A Good Christmas Box, a collection of carols

Book

This small book, A Good Christmas Box, contains a selection of Christmas carols. It was published in 1847 by G Walters...

'A Parody', a Gothic sketch by Branwell Brontë

Manuscript, Artwork, Image Created date: estimated 1848

This ink sketch by Branwell Brontë, brother to Emily and Charlotte Brontë, depicts a skeleton – Death – summoning a figu...

Bewick's The History of British Birds

Book, Illustration, Image

The History of British Birds is the best-known work of Thomas Bewick, an 18th-century wood engraver famed for his finel...

Broadside on Blue Beard

Broadside, Ephemera, Illustration, Image

Ballad sheets containing folktales or melodramas set to popular music were an important part of popular culture from the...

Brontë juvenilia: 'Battell Book'

Manuscript, Artwork, Image Created date: 1827

This is one of the earliest little books by the Brontë children to survive. Not surprisingly, given that he was the driv...

Brontë juvenilia: Tales

Manuscript, Fair copy, Artwork, Image Created date: 1834-35

Charlotte Brontë wrote these ‘Tales’ at the age of 18. They are part of a series of stories set in the fictional world o...

Brontë juvenilia: 'The foundling'

Manuscript, Fair copy, Artwork, Image Created date: 1833

Charlotte Brontë wrote the novelette ‘The Foundling’ (1833) at the age of 17. It is one of a series of stories set in t...

Brontë juvenilia: 'The History of the Young Men'

Manuscript, Fair copy, Artwork, Image Created date: 15 December 1830-7 May 1831

‘The History of the Young Men: From Their First Settlement to the Present Time’ is the fictional chronicle of 12 adventu...

Brontë juvenilia: 'The Search after Happiness'

Manuscript, Fair copy, Artwork, Image Created date: 1829

'The Search after Happiness: a tale … ’ was written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old. The story is ...

Brontë juvenilia: 'The Young Men's Magazine No. Th...

Manuscript, Artwork, Image Created date: 23 August 1830

This little book is the third issue of The Young Men’s Magazine. Although Charlotte Brontë finished it on 23 August 1830...

Charlotte Brontë's journal

Manuscript, Diary Created date: 11 August 1836

Charlotte Brontë kept this journal while working as a teacher at Roe Head school in West Yorkshire. The pages shown here...

Child's First Tales, written by the Brontë sisters...

Book, Children's book, Illustration, Image

Child's First Tales is a collection of short stories intended for 'infant schools and little children in general'. As su...

Copy from Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds...

Manuscript, Artwork, Image Created date: 24 January 1829

This well-executed pencil drawing was copied by Charlotte Brontë, aged 12, from Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds...

Divine Songs: Attempted in Easy Language for the U...

Book, Children's book, Illustration, Image

Isaac Watts’s collection of moral songs for children was first published in 1715. For the next 150 years, it was one of ...