The Honresfield Library, a private collection assembled by two Victorian industrialists that vanished from public view in the 1930s, contains more than 500 manuscripts, letters, rare first editions and other artifacts from a number of canonical authors, including the manuscripts of Walter Scott’s “Rob Roy” and Robert Burns’s “First Commonplace Book.”īut it is the Brontë material - based on hoopla surrounding past Brontë auctions, and the estimates for this one - that is likely to cause the biggest stir. In 2016, the Brontë Parsonage Museum announced that it tracked down a book filled with doodles and inscriptions by the Brontë children (including an unknown poem by Charlotte) that had once survived a shipwreck.Īnd now, a trove of Brontë family manuscripts - all but unseen for a century - will be auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of what the auction house is billing as the sale of a legendary “lost library” of British literature treasures. In 2011, a miniature book created by the 14-year-old Charlotte Brontë prompted a bidding war that climbed past $1 million. Brontë artifacts have a way of making dramatic reappearances.
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