LONDON ( AP) — An unpublished Charlotte Bronte manuscript has sold for a record $1.1 million at auction, more than double the expected price, Sotheby’s auction house said Thursday.
The Young Men’s Magazine, Number 2, was written in 1830 — when the author was 14, 17 years before she wrote “Jane Eyre.” It is set in Glass Town, the earliest fictional world created by the Bronte siblings.
Sotheby’s said Thursday the final sale price set new auction records for Bronte and for a literary work by any of the Bronte sisters.
The auction house said that the Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits in Paris placed the winning bid.
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