Young Charlotte Bronte manuscripts unseen for 200 years published for first time.

Manuscripts penned by Charlotte Bronte that remained unseen for 200 years have been published (Image: Bronte Parsonage Society/SWNS)

FASCINATING manuscripts penned by a teenage Charlotte Bronte that remained unseen for nearly 200 years have been published for the first time. The aged documents comprise a 77-line love poem and a dark 74-line story set in a fantasy world imagined by the famous Bronte family.

They were discovered inside a book once belonging to the Bronte's mother Maria that was sold to an America-based collector in the 1860s. The book and documents were purchased by the Bronte Society for a fee thought to be in excess of £170,000 in 2016. Bronte scholars have now taken transcripts and images of the pages and published them within a new release called Charlotte Bronte: The Lost Manuscripts. The pieces date to 1833 when Charlotte was 17-years-old and are set in the fictional world of Angria, where she and her brother Branwell would later base a series of books.

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