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Charlotte Bronte mini-manuscript could fetch £300,000 Paris museum buys Bronte script
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A tiny manuscript by Charlotte Bronte is expected to fetch up to £300,000 at Sotheby's on Thursday. A tiny manuscript by Charlotte Bronte has been sold to a French museum for £690,850, dashing hopes it could find a new home in the UK.
The unpublished work - issue two of the Young Men's Magazine - reveals a precursor to a scene in Jane Eyre. The unpublished second issue of Young Men's Magazine was sold at auction at Sotheby's to the Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits in Paris.
Bronte created six hand-written editions of the magazine at 14 as part of the imaginary world she built with her sisters and her brother. The institution outbid the Bronte Parsonage Museum in the authors' former house in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
The work is considered to be important for the light it sheds on her literary development. The work is important for the light it sheds on her literary development.
The book contains over 4,000 words on 19 pages, each measuring approximately 1.4in (35mm) by 2.4in (61mm). The manuscript, written when Bronte was just 14, smashed its pre-sale estimate of £200,000 - £300,000.
In 1830 Bronte, living with her family in the now world-famous parsonage at Haworth in Yorkshire, created six editions of the Young Men's Magazine. Bronte, best known for Jane Eyre, created six hand-written editions of the magazine aged 14, as part of the imaginary world she built with her sisters and her brother.
They contain stories set in Glass Town, a fantasy world created by the sisters and their brother Branwell. One story in the issue sold on Thursday is a precursor to the famous passage in Jane Eyre in which Mr Rochester's insane wife, who is kept in the attic, seeks revenge by setting fire to his bed curtains.
Dr Philip Errington, Sotheby's director of books and manuscripts, said it had "huge literary significance".
"The record price set today reflects the international interest in Charlotte Bronte's work," he said. "This tiny manuscript represents her first burst of creativity and provides a rare and intimate insight into one of history's great literary minds."
The manuscript contains over 4,000 words on 19 pages, each measuring approximately 1.4in (35mm) by 2.4in (61mm).
They contain stories set in Glass Town, a fantasy world created by the sisters and their brother, Branwell.
Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, said it was "the most significant manuscript to come to light in decades".Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, said it was "the most significant manuscript to come to light in decades".
The museum, based in Haworth, owns four of the magazines and launched an appeal in November for funds to buy the second edition and put it on public display. The museum owns four of the six magazines and launched an appeal in November for funds to buy the second edition and put it on public display.
One story in the issue is a precursor to the famous passage in Jane Eyre in which Mr Rochester's insane wife, who is kept in the attic, seeks revenge by setting fire to his bed curtains.
The current location of the sixth and last magazine - if it still exists - is unknown.The current location of the sixth and last magazine - if it still exists - is unknown.