Charlotte Brontë was just 13 when she compiled her Book of Rhymes in 1829 - misspelling the word "rhymes". In 2022, the original volume was purchased for £983,000 at auction and the winning bidder ...

Literary scholar Watson explores in his vivid debut biography the mystery and sensation that surrounded Charlotte Brontë. He begins with an account of how literary London was gripped by the ...

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She was Charlotte Bronte, and her novels, of course, have been sold and printed thousands of times since their publication, with Jane Eyre in particular giving Yorkshire arguably its most famous ...

The original 1829 'Book of Rhymes' written by Charlotte Brontë using a quill and ink sees the y and h in rhymes transposed For nearly 200 years, only a select few people had read the contents of ...

This stunning image, painted in Victorian times, showcases a traditional setting for Bridlington Harbour harking back to a ...

In 1980, while living in Belgium, the historian Lynn H. Nicholas read an obituary in The International Herald Tribune of the ...

In a new book, Benoît Gallot explains what it takes to run Père-Lachaise, where he lives with his wife, children and, he ...

For nearly 200 years, only a select few people had read the contents of a tiny collection of poems written by an author who later became a household name. Charlotte Brontë was just 13 when she ...

The journalist and BBC news anchor is a judge for The British Book Awards 2025, the winners of which are announced on 12 May.