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Bronte libel threat letters go on sale to the highest bidder
From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20060524
Author:
David Hogg
A BATCH of 94-year-old letters which show how close Charlotte Bronte came to being sued for the content of Jane Eyre are to go on sale.
The letters show the thoughts of the Reverend William Carus- Wilson, the young writer's real-life headmaster at the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge, later at Casterton, in Cumbria.
He was angry at what he saw as her unfair depiction of the institution in her novel.
The letters were written by his grandson, Edward Carus-Wilson, who wanted to sell them with a revised Jane Eyre manuscript as part of deal to raise funds in 1912 to pay for ...
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