Aristophil Part Five: Charlotte, Victor and Charles

Result EUR780,000

Published on 28 November 2019, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 18 November 2019 - 14:00 (CET) - Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

Nineteenth-century literature was in the spotlight, dominated by a miniature manuscript by the great Charlotte Brontë.

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), signed autograph manuscript, Second Series of The Young... Aristophil Part Five: Charlotte, Victor and Charles

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), signed autograph manuscript, Second Series of The Young Men’s Magazines, August 1830; small 20-page notebook (35 x 61 mm), brown paper cover, red leather sleeve and brown morocco case.
Result: €780,000

Part one focused on English-language literature, which achieved the highest prices and reached a grand total of €3,800,703. The highlight was a manuscript written by the 14-year-old Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) in August 1830, which sold for €780,000. This tiny work (35 x 61 mm), which already shows the future writer’s talent, joins the collections of the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Curator Ann Dinsdale was overjoyed at seeing this unique document return to the place where it was written. "Charlotte Brontë wrote the manuscript for the little soldiers she, her sisters and her brother had made up,” she said. “We’re in the same room where they played [editor's note: the museum is in the Haworth Parsonage], so it seems especially fitting…

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