Brontë artifacts have a way of making dramatic reappearances. In 2011, a miniature book created by the 14-year-old Charlotte Brontë prompted a bidding war that climbed past $1 million. 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. And 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. It carries an estimate of $1.3 million to $1.8 million.

Source: New York Times May 25, 2021 09:56 UTC