The twelve adventurers, and other stories

by Charlotte Brontë

May 25th, 1830.

ALBION AND MARINA

This is Charlotte Brontë’s first love story. It was printed by permission of Mr. Clement Shorter, the owner of the copyright of all the unpublished Brontë manuscripts, in the Brontë Society Publications, Part xxx., 1920, and is now reprinted for the first time.

C. W. H.

ALBION AND
MARINA

A
TALE BY
LORD
WELLESLEY

PRINCIPAL PART
POSSESSING FACT
FOR ITS FOUNDATION.

PUBLISHED
AND SOLD BY SERGEANT
TREE
AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS IN THE CHIEF GLASS TOWN,
PARIS, &C.

PREFACE

I have written this tale out of malignity for the injuries that have lately been offered to me. Many parts, especially the former, were composed under a mysterious influence that I cannot account for.