Read Delphi Complete Works of the Brontes Charlotte, Emily, Anne Brontë (Illustrated) Online
Authors: CHARLOTTE BRONTE,EMILY BRONTE,ANNE BRONTE,PATRICK BRONTE,ELIZABETH GASKELL
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