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Brontë’s husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls, was eager to keep his famous wife’s personal letters from prying eyes. He extracted a promise from Ellen Nussey, Brontë’s intimate friend and frequent ...

A few months after she left the Sidgwick family’s employ, Brontë wrote this letter to her friend Ellen to let her know that she had just turned down a new job offer. Susanna Halliley of Leeds, a ...

The few locks that are left you are grey, You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man, Now tell me the reason I pray. In the days of my youth, father William replied I remember’d that youth would ...

In Tenniel’s final drawing, Alice’s figure is stretched a little further and her expression is refined. A larger, unfinished study of Alice’s head partially appears in the right margin.

In this letter to William S. Williams of the firm that had published Jane Eyre, Brontë reacted to some of the early reviews of her first published novel. She defended her portrayal of Helen Burns, a ...