Delphi Complete Works of the Brontes Charlotte, Emily, Anne Brontë (Illustrated) (566 page)

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Authors: CHARLOTTE BRONTE,EMILY BRONTE,ANNE BRONTE,PATRICK BRONTE,ELIZABETH GASKELL

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The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense.
 
By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley.
 
Charlotte Brontë.
           
1833

The Foundling: A Tale of our own Times.
 
By Captain Tree
        
1833

Richard Cœur de Lion and Blondel.
 
By Charlotte Brontë, 8vo, p .
 
Signed in full Charlotte Brontë, and dated Haworth, near Bradford, Dec. 27th, 1833
    
1833

My Angria and the Angrians.
 
By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley
           
1834

A Leaf from an Unopened Volume; or, The Manuscript of an Unfortunate Author.
 
Edited by Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley
        
1834

Corner Dishes: Being a small Collection of . . . Trifles in Prose and Verse.
 
By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley
        
1834

The Spell: An Extravaganza.
 
By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley.
 
Signed Charlotte Brontë, June 21st, 1834.
 
The contents include: 1. Preface, half page; 2. The Spell, 26 pages; 3. High Life in Verdopolis: or The Difficulties of Annexing a Suitable Title to a Work Practically Illustrated in Six Chapters.
 
By Lord C. A. F. Wellesley, March 20, 1834, 22 pages; 4. The Scrap-Book: A Mingling of Many Things.
 
Compiled by Lord C. A. F. Wellesley.
 
C. Brontë, March 17th, 1835, 31 pages.

[This volume is in the British Museum.]
   

 
Death of Darius Cadomanus: A Poem.
 
By Charlotte Brontë.
 
P .
 
Signed in full, and dated
    
1835

Saul and Memory: Two Poems.
 
By C. Brontë.
 
P
          
1835

Passing Events
      
1836

‘We Wove a Web in Childhood’: A poem (pp. vi.), signed C. Brontë, Haworth, Dec’br. 19th, 1835
    
1835

The Wounded Stag, and other Poems.
 
Signed C. Brontë.
 
Jan’y. 19, 1836.
 
P
  
1836

Lord Douro: A Story.
 
Signed C. Brontë.
 
July 21st, 1837
          
1837

Poems.
 
By C. Brontë.
 
P
 
1838

Lettre d’Invitation à un Ecclésiastique.
 
Signed Charlotte Brontë.
 
Le 21 Juillet, 1842.
 
Large 8vo, p .
 
A French exercise written at Brussels
    
1842

John Henry.
 
By Charlotte Brontë, Crown 8vo, p , written in pencil
       
circa 1852

Willie Ellin.
 
By Charlotte Brontë.
 
Crown 8vo, p
           
May and June 1853

The following, included in Charlotte’s ‘Catalogue of my Books’ printed by Mrs. Gaskell, are not now forthcoming:
  

Leisure Hours: A Tale, and two Fragments
          
July 6th, 1829

The Adventures of Edward de Crak: A Tale
        
Feb. 2nd, 1830

An Interesting Incident in the Lives of some of the most eminent Persons of the Age: A Tale
  
June 10th, 1830

The Poetaster: A Drama.
 
In two volumes,
           
July 12th, 1830

A Book of Rhymes, finished
        
December 17th, 1829

Miscellaneous Poems, finished

[These Miscellaneous Poems are probably poems written upon separate sheets, and not forming a complete book — indeed, some half dozen such separate poems are still extant.
 
The last item given in Charlotte’s list of these Miscellaneous Poems is The Evening Walk, 1820; this is a separate book, and is included in the list above.]
           
May 3rd, 1830

BY EMILY BRONTË

A volume of Poems, 8vo, p ; signed (at the top of the first page) E. J. B.
 
Transcribed February 1814.
  
Each poem is headed with the date of its composition.
 
Of the poems included in this book four are still unprinted, the remainder were published in the Poems of 1846.
 
The whole are written in microscopic characters
1844

A volume of Poems, square 8vo, p .
 
Each poem is dated, and the first is signed E. J. Brontë, August 19th, 1837.
 
Written in an ordinary, and not a minute, handwriting.
 
All unpublished
     
1837-1839

A series of poems written in a minute hand upon both sides of fourteen or fifteen small slips of paper of various sizes.
 
All unpublished
           
1833-1839

Lettre and Réponse.
 
An exercise in French.
 
Large 8vo, p .
 
Signed E. J. Brontë, and dated 16 Juillet
 
1842

L’Amour Filial.
 
An exercise in French.
 
Small quarto, p .
 
Signed in full Emily J. Brontë, and dated 5 Aout
           
1842

BY ANNE BRONTË.

Verses by Lady Geralda, and other poems.
 
A crown 8vo volume of 28 pages.
 
Each poem is signed (or initialled) and dated, the dates extending from 1836 to 1837.
 
The poems are all unpublished
           
1836-1837

The North Wind, and other poems.
 
A crown 8vo volume of 26 pages.
 
Each poem is signed (or initialled) and dated, some having in addition to her own name the nom-de-guerre Alexandrina Zenobia or Olivia Vernon.
 
The dates extend from 1838 to 1840.
 
The poems are all unpublished
    
1838-1840

To Cowper, and other poems.
 
8vo, p .
 
Of the nine poems contained in this volume three are signed Anne Brontë, four are signed A. Brontë, and two are initialled ‘A. B.’
 
All are dated.
 
Part of these Poems are unpublished, the remainder appeared in the Poems of 1846
     
1842-1845

A thin 8vo volume of poems (mostly dated 1845), p , each being signed A. Brontë, or simply
 
‘A. B.’ — some having in addition to, or instead of, her own name the nom-de-guerre Zerona.
 
A few of these poems are unprinted; the remainder are a portion of Anne’s contribution to the Poems of 1846
   
circa 1845

Song: ‘Should Life’s first feelings be forgot’ (one octavo leaf)

[A fair copy (2 p vo) of a poem by Branwell Brontë, in the hand-writing of Anne Brontë.]
       
1845

The Power of Love, and other poems.
 
Post octavo, p .
 
Each poem is signed (or initialled) and dated
 
1845-1846

Self Communion, a Poem.
 
8vo, p .
 
Signed ‘A. B.’ and dated April 17th, 1848
1848

BY BRANWELL BRONTË.

The Battle of Washington.
 
By P. B. Brontë.
 
With full-page coloured illustrations

[An exceedingly childish production, and the earliest of all the Brontë manuscripts.]
    
1827

History of the Rebellion in my Army
       
1828

The Travels of Rolando Segur: Comprising his Adventures throughout the Voyage, and in America, Europe, the South Pole, etc.
 
By Patrick Branwell Brontë.
 
In two volumes
       
1829

A Collection of Poems.
 
By Young Soult the Rhymer.
 
Illustrated with Notes and Commentaries by Monsieur Chateaubriand.
 
In two volumes
        
1829

The Liar Detected.
 
By Captain Bud
        
1830

Caractacus: A Dramatic Poem.
 
By Young Soult
 
1830

The Revenge: A Tragedy, in three Acts.
 
By Young Soult.
 
P. B. Brontë.
 
In two volumes.
 
Glasstown

[Although the title page reads ‘in two volumes,’ the book is complete in one volume only.]
      
1830

The History of the Young Men.
 
By John Bud
    
1831

Letters from an Englishman.
 
By Captain John Flower.
 
In six volumes
  
1830-1832

 
The Monthly Intelligencer.
 
No. 1

[The only number produced of a projected manuscript newspaper, by Branwell Brontë.
 
The MS. consists of 4 p to, arranged in columns, precisely after the manner of an ordinary journal.]
March 27, 1833

Real Life in Verdopolis: A Tale.
 
By Captain John Flower, M.P.
 
In two volumes.
 
P. B. Brontë
          
1833

The Politics of Verdopolis: A Tale.
 
By Captain John Flower.
 
P. B. Brontë
       
1833

The Pirate: A Tale.
 
By Captain John Flower

[The most pretentious of Branwell’s prose stories.]
          
1833

Thermopylae: A Poem.
 
By P. B. Brontë.
 
8vo, p
1834

And the Weary are at Rest: A Tale.
 
By P. B. Brontë
      
1834

The Wool is Rising: An Angrian Adventure.
 
By the Right Honourable John Baron Flower
      
1834

Ode to the Polar Star, and other Poems.
 
By P. B. Brontë.
 
Quarto, p
    
1834

The Life of Field Marshal the Right Honourable Alexander Percy, Earl of Northangerland.
 
In two volumes.
 
By John Bud.
 
P. B. Brontë
         
1835

The Rising of the Angrians: A Tale.
 
By P. B. Brontë
      
1836

A Narrative of the First War.
 
By P. B. Brontë
    
1836

The Angrian Welcome: A Tale.
 
By P. B. Brontë
 
1836

Percy: A Story.
 
By P. B. Brontë

A packet containing four small groups of Poems, of about six or eight pages each, mostly without titles, but all either signed or initialled, and dated from 1836 to 1838
      
1837

Love and Warfare: A Story.
 
By P. B. Brontë
      
1839

Lord Nelson, and other Poems.
 
By P. B. Brontë.
 
Written in pencil.
 
Small 8vo, p

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