Charlotte Brontë...in New York
The following information of interest to Victorianists or fans of the Brontë's works concerns the current exhibition of Charlotte Brontë's letters, manuscripts, and juvenilia at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York. From the website: "This exhibition, which will continue through January 2017, celebrates the two-hundredth anniversary of Brontë’s birth in 1816, and marks an historic collaboration between the Morgan, which holds one of the world’s most important collections of Brontë manuscripts and letters, and the Brontë Parsonage Museum, in Haworth, England, which has loaned a variety of key items including the author’s earliest surviving miniature manuscript, her portable writing desk and paintbox, and a blue floral dress she wore in the 1850s. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a portion of the original manuscript of Jane Eyre, on loan from the British Library and being shown in the U.S. for the first time, open to the page on which Jane asserts her 'independent will.' Also shown for the first time in America will be the only two life portraits of Brontë, on loan from London’s National Portrait Gallery."
Online exhibition:
Read Brontë's personal letters in Charlotte Brontë: Ten Letters and a Fictional Fantasy.
Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will is made possible by Fay and Geoffrey Elliott.
The catalogue is underwritten by the Andrew W. Mellon Fund for Research and Publications.
Exhibition tours: Tuesday through Sunday, September 27, 2016 through January 2, 2017, 2 pm.
