A Book of Ryhmes is a miniature book of poems by Charlotte Brontë. It was written in 1829 when Brontë was aged 13. The book is part of the collections of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
Contents
The Book of has 15 pages with handstitched brown paper covers. It contains 10 poems. The text of the poems was unknown until the 2022 rediscovery of the book, having never been transcribed or summarised. • "The Beauty of Nature" • "A Short Poem" • "Meditations while Journeying in a Canadian Forest" • "Song of an Exile" • "On Seeing the Ruins of the Tower of Babel" • "A Thing of 14 Lines" • "Lines written on the Bank of a River one fine Summer Evening" • "Spring, a Song" • "Autumn, a Song" ==Publication==
Publication
The Book of received its first publication 21 April 2025 by the Brontë Society and Tartarus Press. The book has facsimile reproductions of the original pages of the manuscript, with a transcription of the poems. Additionally, it has an Introduction by Patti Smith, and essays by Barbara Heritage and Henry Wessells. ==See also==