Rare Brontë sisters items on public display for first time
Fireside Tales by Charlotte Brontë; a first edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey by Emily and Anne Brontë; Centre: Visits in Verreopolis by Charlotte Brontë and autograph letters by Branwell Brontë are among the items on showManuscripts, handwritten letters and poems are among "fascinating items" by the Brontë sisters that have gone on public display for the first time.
Emily's own annotated copy of the first Brontë book, 'Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell', published under the sisters' pen names to hide their gender. A pencil sketch by the then 10-year-old Emily, which shows a small hand reaching through a broken window. Curators said the image suggests that of Cathy grasping Lockwood's hand in Wuthering Heights.
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