Few teenagers would want the world to read their poems. At 13, Charlotte Brontë collected her verse in a humble anthology that already hinted at her ambition to become an author at a time when few women wrote for a public audience.

Written in the winter of 1829, the poems in Brontë’s “Book of Rhymes” were written in tiny script to fit on scraps of paper no larger than playing cards that were hand-stitched together with a carefully written contents page. The writer of “Jane Eyre” probably didn’t intend to publish her juvenile poetry, writing in the inner cover “Sold By Nobody and Printed By Herself.” Now, about 200 years later, the anthology will be available to the public for the first time.

This week, in time to celebrate the 209th anniversary of her birth, the Brontë Parsonage Museum in England published the collection of 10 poems, transcribed alongside images of their original ink-smudged pages. The anthology contains a long-form poem on the beauty of the natural world, an attempt at an epic, and a verse called “A Thing of Fourteen Lines — Commonly Called a [Sonnet?]”

The anthology shows Brontë’s deletions and rearranged stanzas, showing lines crossed out and rewritten. In preserving her ink-stained edits, the little manuscript also shows an aspiring author already grappling with character and perspective.

“They chart her development as a writer,” said Ann Dinsdale, the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s principal curator. The original manuscript, which was lost for at least a century, will also go on display at the museum, in Haworth, in northern England.

Brontë, showing an early ambition, cataloged her early poems and stories, first written at age 10 and numbering 22 titles by the time she was 14.Credit…Rischgitz/Getty Images