A Book of Ryhmes
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.
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The Book of Ryhmes has 15 pages with handstitched brown paper covers. It contains 10 poems. The title page is inscribed "Ryhmes. Sold by Nobody. And printed by Herself".
List of poems
The contents of the book were listed by Brontë in her 1830 list of her work to date. The text of the poems was unknown until the 2022 rediscovery of the book, having never been transcribed or summarised.
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The Book of Ryhmes 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.
