We've heard today that a lost short story by Charlotte Brontë is to be published, after it was found in a museum.
The story struck a chord here at Biteback because The Robson Press are publishing The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker in just a few weeks. The journal was found in Stoker's grandson's attic. Painstakingly transcribed and researched, the journal offers intriguing new insights into the complex nature of the man who wrote Dracula more than one hundred years ago. Assisted by a team of scholars and Stoker historians, Dacre Stoker and Professor Elizabeth Miller neatly connect the dots between the contents of the journal and Bram Stoker’s later work, most significantly Dracula.
These two stories got me thinking: imagine if other books, which we now consider to be classic, must-read literature, had never been published. Imagine if we had never heard of Jane Austen, or any of the Brontë sisters. Charles Dickens, or Thomas Hardy. We almost didn't hear of some of them - many famous authors recieved numerous rejections before finally being published. Flavorwire has a round up here.
Which books or authors do you think would be most sorely missed if they had never been published?