Bronte work sells for £690k

AN UNPUBLISHED Charlotte Bronte manuscript has sold for a record £690,850 at auction.

The Young Men’s Magazine, Number 2, was written when Charlotte was 14 and is set in Glass Town, the earliest fictional world created by the Bronte siblings.

Sotheby’s had estimated it would sell for between £200,000 and £300,000 at the English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations sale yesterday.

But the manuscript sold for more than double the top estimate, setting new auction records for a manuscript by Charlotte Bronte.