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[Printed offprint, 'Reprinted - by permission - from the "Labour and Progress" column of the Manchester Evening News'.] Technical Education. Messrs. S. Z. de Ferranti's Scholarship Scheme.

Author: 
F. Brocklehurst, M.A. [Technical Instruction Committee of the Corporation of Manchester; Manchester Evening News]
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Issued by the Technical Instruction Committee of the Corporation of Manchester. July 1900.
£60.00

10 + [1] pp., 12mo. Stitched, in grey printed wraps. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with central vertical fold line, and stamp, shelfmark and labels of the Board of Education Library. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, and the only copy on Copac at the London School of Economics.

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[Printed handbill.] 'A Course of Lectures on Nursing the Sick Will be given in the Public Institution, Crown Yard, St. Ives, On Wednesdays for Four Weeks, Commencing 27th Feb., 1901, at 7-30 p.m. Lecturer: Miss G. Brocklehurst.'

Author: 
Miss G. Brocklehurst; J. Hazlitt, District Secretary, St Ives, Hunts [Huntingdonshire County Council; J. G. Hankin & Son, Steam Printers; nursing]
Publication details: 
'J. Hazlitt, District Secretary. | St. Ives, 25th Feb., 1901.' ['J. G. Hankin & Son, Steam Printers, St. Ives, Hunts.']
£38.00

1p., 8vo (25 x 18.5 cm). In fair condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper. 19 lines, printed in a variety of fonts and point sizes, in a style characteristic of the period. Headed: 'HUNTS. COUNTY COUNCIL. | TECHNICAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE. | DISTRICT OF ST. IVES.' Signed in type by Hazlitt at the end. 'The Lectures are FREE to all; and it is hoped that many people will attend them, as they will be of a Homely, Useful and Practical Character.'

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Autograph Note Signed ('W Carus Wilson') by Rev. William Carus Wilson, the 'Mr. Brocklehurst' of Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'.

Author: 
William Carus Wilson (1792-1859), author of 'The Children's Friend', the 'Mr. Brocklehurst' of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Publication details: 
Carterton Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale. 26 August [no year].
£60.00

1p., 12mo. Laid down on a leaf removed from an album. Fair, on aged and dusty paper, with slight creasing to one corner. Reads: 'I shall probably look in at your homes on Monday | Yrs trly | [signed] W Carus Wilson | Aug 26 | Carterton Hall | Kirby Lonsdale'. Wilson ran Clergy Daughters' school which the Bronte sisters attended (fictionalised as ''Lowood' in 'Jane Eyre'). Charlotte Bronte blamed the harsh conditions at the school for the early deaths of her two elders sisters, and for the ill-health of her younger sisters, Anne and Emily.

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