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In the Spotlight

A MINIATURE

BRONTË BOOK

Wri!en for the toy soldiers
that the young Brontës used to
play with, Charlo!e’s ‘li!le
book’, entitled The Young Men’s
Magazine, Volume 2, was one of
six miniature manuscripts she
created when she was just 14.
The book is one of "ve that
are known to have survived
out of the six that Charlo!e
penned, and will now join the
other four at the Brontë
Parsonage Museum.
Measuring 35 # 61mm,
it was handwri!en in tiny
characters aimed to replicate
print, and regaled tales of an
imaginary West African
se!lement named Glass Town.
The diminutive work came
up for auction at Drouot in
Paris in November and was
snapped up by the Brontë
Society for $600,000 (£512,000),
©Aguttes/Drouot; Getty Images fundraising campaign to help
a%er they ran a public

them ensure it was brought
back to Haworth in Yorkshire.

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