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Bronte portrait back home after 150 years

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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20080718
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A portrait of Emily Bronte and a notebook of her poems have returned to Haworth after almost 150 years.

The Gondal poems notebook and portrait, on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, crown an exhibition called No Coward Soul, celebrating the Yorkshire writer at the Bronte Parsonage Museum.

In 1861, after the Brontes had died, the Gondal poems notebook left Haworth for Ireland with Charlotte's widower Arthur Bell Nicholls. After his death in 1907, the manuscript was auctioned at Sotheby's to Mrs George Smith, the widow of Charlotte's publisher.

It was then bequeathed to the British Library ...

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