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By Charlotte Brontë
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A collection of youthful prose fragments and short stories composed in adolescence and early adulthood, offering voyages, fantastical realms peopled by genii, fairy-tale episodes, sentimental sketches, and dramatic fragments. The pieces move between energetic adventure narratives and intimate reflections, often experimenting with melodramatic scenes, romantic entanglements, and imaginative worldbuilding. Several tales appear here for the first time, presented with editorial notes and careful transcription that preserve orthography while correcting obvious typographical errors. Together they reveal a developing literary voice shaped by bold imagination and stylistic apprenticeship.

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Title: The twelve adventurers, and other stories

Author: Charlotte Brontë

Editor: C. W. Hatfield

Clement King Shorter

Release date: June 18, 2024 [eBook #73858]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925

Credits: Lauren Prichard

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THE TWELVE ADVENTURERS
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Transcriber’s Note:


Every attempt has been made to preserve the original formatting, along with inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, and italicization. However, footnotes have been changed to endnotes or renumbered and moved closer to their anchor, and some obvious typographical errors have been corrected; see the Errata for a complete list.


New original cover art, which features a pencil drawing by Charlotte Brontë of an unknown woman, included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.

The Twelve Adventurers
and Other Stories ❦ ❦ ❦

By CHARLOTTE BRONTË








Hodder and Stoughton
Limited    London







Made and Printed in Great Britain
T. and A. Constable Ltd., Printers, Edinburgh

NOTE

It would be quite easy to maintain that these twelve fragments which come to us from the childhood of Charlotte Brontë should not be perpetuated for the public in the printed page. They were written between the ages of twelve and twenty-one, and it was certainly never for a moment contemplated by the author that they would ever see the light. They were handed to me in a little house in Banagher in Ireland, nearly thirty years ago, by the Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, the husband of Charlotte Brontë, who in a letter before me explains that they would have been burnt had I not come upon the scene. The ever-increasing fame of Charlotte Brontë in the intervening years has gone on side by side with an immense literature devoted to child psychology. It is as a contribution to that science that I have been frequently exhorted to publish them. A natural indolence would have prevented this had not my friend, Mr. C. W. Hatfield, come to the rescue by diligently transcribing the minute handwriting and preparing the volume with certain useful notes for publication.

CLEMENT SHORTER.


August 1925.