Brontë, Charlotte, (1816-1855), novelist and poet

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Alternative name(s):	Arthur Bell Nicholls (Married to) Currer Bell (Pseudonym)
Surname:	Brontë
Forenames:	Charlotte
Gender:	Female
Date:	1816-1855
Biography:	ODNB link for Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855) afterwards Nicholls, Novelist and poet called Currer Bell
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P140194 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P3641 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Charlotte Bronte

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	literary MSS	See information in published source		See Index of English literary MSS vol 4 1800-1900
2	letters and papers	See information in published source		See Location Register of English Literary MSS and Letters, 18th & 19th cents (1995)
3	letters and literary MSS	Princeton University Library		See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
4	1847-1851: corresp with William Smith Williams	Harvard University: Houghton Library	MS Eng 871	See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
5	corresp, French essays, literary drafts, diary fragments, poems and assorted notes	Bronte Parsonage Museum		NRA 13898 Bronte Society
6	MSS of Talew, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 34255, 43474-82
7	family papers	The Morgan Library	HH Bonnell collection	See Times Literary Supplement 24 August 1973
8	1832-54: corresp (122 items) mainly to Ellen Nussey and literary MSS	Huntington Library		See Guide to literary MSS 1979
9	1848-54: letters (22), mostly to Elizabeth Gaskell	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	Gaskell Collection	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
10	letters to GH Lewes	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 39763
11	corresp with Harriet Martineau	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	HM89-109	NRA 13464 Martineau
12	1847-55: letters (16) to A Ringrose	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
13	1845-54: letters (32) to Miss Wooler	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18th-19th cent 1995
14	letters to Lady Kay-Shuttleworth	Lancashire Archives	DDKS	See Annual Return 1999
15	1829-1830: literary ms (9), co-written with Patrick Bronwell Brontë	Harvard University: Houghton Library	MS Lowell 1
16	1829: miniature book, 'Characters of the Celebrated Men of the Present Time by Captain Tree', written in ink on hand cut paper	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89486	See Annual Return 2022
17	1847: letter to William Smith Williams (1800-1875), literary adviser to Smith, Elder & Co.	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89487	See Annual Return 2022