Charlotte Bronte's 'Anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington'

'Anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington', written in a small handmade booklet by Charlotte Bronte at the age of thirteen, importantly adds to the Brontes' reading history and provides further evidence of Charlotte's particular veneration of the Duke of Wellington, one of her personal heroes who appears in various guises and transformations in her juvenilia and novels. This essay discusses the identification of the previously missing continuation of the manuscript and its significance, and provides a complete transcription of the whole of 'Anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington' for the first time.