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Elizabeth Firth Manuscripts
Fonds
Reference code: 58
Scope and Contents
Diaries and related papers of Elizabeth Firth, recording her life in the Yorkshire village of Thornton in the 1810s and 1820s. The diaries which form the bulk of the collection are of the simplest kind: brief day-to-day records of social and church occasions of a young girl in a small village near Bradford and at boarding school near Wakefield. Their principal interest lies in the references to members of the Brontë family with whom Elizabeth was acquainted, and the collection includes a...
Dates:
1812 - 1961
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives