The Concluding Page of an Angrian Story by Branwell Brontë
Thomas McLean , Grace Moore
Notes and Queries, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjx159
Published: 10 October 2017
A single-page holograph, signed and dated by Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817–48), survives in the Heritage Collections of the Dunedin Public Library in New Zealand. The page includes a previously unpublished passage from the Brontës’ Angria writings, in Branwell’s hand, that provides the conclusion and completion date of a longer, published section held in the Henry Houston Bonnell Collection of the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
The passage and the story it completes are later additions to the paracosmic tales of Glass Town and Angria that Charlotte and Branwell created in their youth. As is well-known, the stories were inspired by the gift of a box of twelve toy soldiers to Branwell from their father Patrick Brontë in June 1826. Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne each selected and named a soldier, and the acquisition fired...
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DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12429
Abstract
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Volume 45, Issue 4 December 2017 , pp. 763-781
Abstract
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