BOOK NEWS: Tartarus Press to publish Charlotte Brontë's 'Book Of Ryhmes'.

In 2022 a tiny little 15 page book of 10 poems written in 1829 by a 13 year old Charlotte Brontë went on display at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire.  The book returned to its former home after being purchased from a New York bookseller, for £973,000, by the charity Friends of the Nation's Libraries.

Now, on 21st April 2025, "A Book Of Ryhmes By Charlotte Bronte, Sold By Nobody, And Printed By Herself', is finally being sold and printed by somebody else.  Tartarus Press have taken on the task of reproducing Bronte's book in both hardback and jacketed paperback editions for which pre-orders are now open here.  Both editions feature reproductions of the original pages presented alongside transcriptions of the poems and include an Introduction by singer, poet and book collector Patti Smith as well as essays by rare books specialist Barbara Heritage and author and antiquarian bookseller Henry Wessells.

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