Charlotte Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell

Adam White (The Open University)

Ed. by Daniel Robinson, Widener University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.06: English Writing and Culture of the Romantic Period, 1789-1837.
Vol. editors: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Daniel Robinson (Widener University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1846

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

was published by Aylott and Jones of London in May 1846. The expenses were met by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, but the volume sold very few (two, by all accounts) copies. Smith, Elder and Co. reissued the work in 1848, retaining the original date of publication on the title page. Nineteen of the poems in the collection were by Charlotte (Currer) Brontë, with twenty-one each by Emily (Ellis) Brontë and Anne (Acton) Brontë. Emily’s initial reluctance to publish her poems after Charlotte found her sister’s “MS. volume of verse” in the autumn of 1845 is documented in the “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell”, which prefaced the 1850 edition of

Wuthering Heights

and

Agnes Grey

—here we are also told that the “ambiguous…

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Citation: White, Adam. "Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 June 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2674, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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