Charles Davis writes “from ‘The Guardian’:
Four of the most poignant love letters in English literature have returned to the Yorkshire village where their misguided writer posted them 160 years ago.
After a century in storage at the British Library, the heartfelt notes from Charlotte Bronte have gone on display at the parsonage in Haworth, where she agonised over their phrasing during periods of depression in 1844. [ the rest of the story … ]
The Guardian article explains how these epistolary fragments are important, not only for how they shed light on Charlotte Bronte’s personal life, but also for their value as source material for her novel Villette.
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