Friend of Charlotte Brontë - Nussey (Ellen, lifelong friend and correspondent of Charlotte Brontë and a major source for Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, 1817-97) [Commonplace book of sermons], autograph manuscript signed and inscribed, several pages inscribed across text, "Happiness", "Human Beings" etc., 20pp., 2 ff. loosely inserted, slightly browned, original marbled wrappers, oblong 4to, Brookroyd [House], [Birstall, Yorkshire], 12th June - 11th August 1836. ⁂ Nussey's record of sermons heard at St. Peter's Church, Birstall. The initials, mostly W.H., probably William Margetson Heald (1803-75) vicar of Birstall. Ellen Nussey met Charlotte Brontë at Roe Head School in 1831 and they became lifelong friends. Later the friendship was extended to Charlotte's sisters, Emily and Anne. In 1836, the year this manuscript was written Charlotte was once again at Roe Head School, this time as a rather disaffected teacher. Charlotte, unlike Ellen was expected to earn her living, and for the daughter of a vicar, teaching was practically the only option, an occupation Charlotte loathed.
Friend of Charlotte Brontë - Nussey (Ellen, lifelong friend and correspondent of Charlotte Brontë and a major source for Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, 1817-97) [Commonplace book of sermons], autograph manuscript signed and inscribed, several pages inscribed across text, "Happiness", "Human Beings" etc., 20pp., 2 ff. loosely inserted, slightly browned, original marbled wrappers, oblong 4to, Brookroyd [House], [Birstall, Yorkshire], 12th June - 11th August 1836. ⁂ Nussey's record of sermons heard at St. Peter's Church, Birstall. The initials, mostly W.H., probably William Margetson Heald (1803-75) vicar of Birstall. Ellen Nussey met Charlotte Brontë at Roe Head School in 1831 and they became lifelong friends. Later the friendship was extended to Charlotte's sisters, Emily and Anne. In 1836, the year this manuscript was written Charlotte was once again at Roe Head School, this time as a rather disaffected teacher. Charlotte, unlike Ellen was expected to earn her living, and for the daughter of a vicar, teaching was practically the only option, an occupation Charlotte loathed.
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