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MS Ashley 156 'The Search after Happiness: a tale … ’ by Charlotte Brontë, 1829...

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MS Ashley 156 'The Search after Happiness: a tale … ’ by Charlotte Brontë, 1829 (ink on paper)
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Bronte, Charlotte (1816-55) / British
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British Library, London, UK
Medium
ink on paper
Date
1829 AD (C19th AD)
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The 15 page hand-sewn booklet in brown paper wrappers is mostly written in minute characters, in imitation of print. It contains an elaborately laid out title page which is also intended to mimic that of a printed book. The story contains Charlotte’s earliest known poem, ‘In this fairy land of light’. Poetry features a lot in Charlotte’s juvenile writings; however, once she became a published author she largely abandoned it in favour of prose fiction.

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