Charlotte Bronte's Sunday School Bible

An excerpt from BBC' s "Antiques Roadshow" where a gentleman presents an old bible that the antiques expert estimates it could have belonged to Charlotte Bronte, as the notes inside seem to look like written in her rare handwriting and he believes it to be genuine. The gentleman's grandfather had bought it in the 1940s, for what was then the princely sum on £50, and is told that now it is worth between £15,000 and £25,000. Imagine how interesting her notes may prove to be.

A thousand thanks to Jacqui for providing me this video.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Charlotte
• Bronte
• antiques
• sunday
• school
• bible

[margo3883]

It's a rare finding, indeed !

Thanks, Ksotikoula ! By the way, did you notice the greek words in her handwriting ?

[ksotikoula]

Well, although I saw the Greek words, I only now realized they were not printed but written by hand... Great observation Margo.

Branwell too used to write Mrs Robinson's maiden name, Lydia Gibsborn as Λυδια Γισβορνε.

Also one of Charlotte's fictitious writer names in Angria was Charles Thunder, because she realized that Bronte actually sounded as the Greek word Βροντή (thunder). Impressive, huh?

[JaneLearmonth]

My goodness it certainly resembles her writing!

[ksotikoula]

Yes, it does :) !

[ksotikoula]

A thousand thanks to Jacqui for providing me this video.

[EverythingMe15]

WOW!

[honestly6]

Does anyone know who auctioned it in the end? Did scholars buy it?

[ROGER459]

Sorry I missed this when I was in the UK...!

[iamme611]

kickass!

[madinapaola]

Wow, incredible. Efharisto, Ksotikoula!

[TammyE21]

It would be wonderful if they would publish her notes from it. I would love to read them! Thanks for the video.

[margo3883]

Wow!

That is a rare finding, indeed !

Thanks ksotikoula !

[gio73vanna]

My friend,I just favourited this video.Unbelievable!