Few teenagers would want the world to read its songs. In 13 years, Charlotte Brontë has collected her verse in a modest anthology, which has already hinted at her ambition to become an author at a time when few women wrote for a public audience.

Written in the winter of 1829, poems in Brontë’s “Book of Rome” were written with a tiny scenario to fit into the remnants of paper, not greater than playing tickets that were handmade together with carefully written content pages. The writer “Jane Eyre” probably did not intend to publish her juvenile poetry, writing in the inner cover “Nobody sells it and print it on its own.” Now, about 200 years later, the anthology will be available to the public for the first time.

This week, on time to celebrate the 209th anniversary of his birth, Museum of Pastor Brontë In England, he published a collection of 10 songs, transcribed with pictures of their original pages with a ridiculed ink. The anthology contains a song of a long form about the beauty of the natural world, attempting an epic and a verse called “Fourteen lines-which is usually called (sonnet?)”

The anthology shows Brontë’s deletion and remodeled stanzas, showing crossed lines and transcribed. In the preservation of her arrangement of colored ink, a small manuscript also shows that the author who is taddy is already clashing with character and perspective.

“They are outlining her development as a writer,” said Ann Dinsdale, the main curator of the brontë parsonage museum. The original manuscript, which has been lost for at least a century, will also be exhibited at the Museum, Haworth, in North England.

The existence of songs was known thanks to the biography of Brontë, written Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell and published in 1857. Gaskell wrote about the catalog of early songs and stories brontë, first written at the age of 10 and numbered 22 titles at the time she was 14.

These juvenile works, including the “Book of Rime”, are later the whole price of collectors. Records show that “Rome’s Book” appeared at a auction in New York in 1916 – but then she disappeared. He re -appeared in 2022, where it was a title subject at the Antique Show at the New York International.

Sold an anonymous private collector, The anthology brought $ 1.25 million At the auction of that year, held on the 206th anniversary of the birth of Brontë. Friends of National LibrariesThe British non -profit organization has collected that amount with donors donors, including the Garfield Weston Foundation and TS Eliota estate to stop the book to disappear again to another private collection. It was then donated to the Parsonage Brontë Museum, headquartered in the Parishment where the Brontë family lived and wrote in the 19th century.

From their house in Haworth, brothers and sisters Brontë – Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell – produced small magazines that contained complex worlds: their imaginary readers were a set of toys they played with, making adventures. The children collected any piece of paper they could find, writing on sugar bags and limiting their books in the background remains, said Dinsdale, curator of the museum. They wrote that the scale for toy soldiers, but by making the text so small, they also prevented the curious eyes of adults to look at their small world.

Brontë wrote “The Book of Rome” with the voice of two toys soldiers, Marquis Duro and Lord Charles Wellesley and imagined them moving into an expedition through the Canadian Forest, which “branches mixed over their heads / throwing festive shades / OE’R, to which I was on the plant path.

Early work of young brontës reflects what they read at the time, Dinsdale said. She added that they were encouraged by their father, Patrick Brontë, a priest who also studied the life of birds, who would take children for long walks across the Mors around his home. He encouraged Charlotte to watch the natural landscape, who became the signature of her writing, Dinsdale said.

Long before her characters blurred her skirts in the buccal landscapes of her novels, teenage girls Charlotte Brontë caught a natural environment in her songs “Autumn, Song” and “Spring, Song.”

“Meanwhile, a hurrying stream that roars / black waves of foam in great Majesty,” he writes in a song called “A little rhyme.”

The verse is imperfect, but already reflective brontë knew that, writing in the introduction: “The following attempts to rhyming the inferior nature are, it must be admitted, but they are my best.”

The Parson Museum bronze joined with a local publisher and asked the musician, author and poet Patti Smith to write the foreword. In it, it says that Brontë’s teen writing brought her back to her childhood, when she had an escape from reality. The songs show a clear writer who is determined to invented “as a benign weapon,” Smith writes.

“It’s not just a handful of underage verses,” she adds, “but a manifestation of an ambitious dreamer.”