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Updated: June 2, 2025
In the great capitals, as Rome, Berlin, Paris, London, in smaller capitals, as Florence, Weimar, and Boston, in many a village which had a charm for them, as Stratford-on-Avon, Ferney, and Concord in Massachusetts, in the homes of wonderful suffering, as Ferrara and Haworth. on many enchanted waters, as the Guadalquivir, the Rhine, the Tweed, the Hudson, Windermere, and Leman, in many a monastic nook whence had issued a chronicle or history, in many a wild birthplace of a poem or romance, around many an old castle and stately ruin, in many a decayed seat of revelry and joyous repartee, through the long list of the nurseries of genius and the laboratories of art, they wandered pensive and strangely affected.
Mary is playing on the piano; Martha is chattering as fast as her little tongue can run; and Branwell is standing before her, laughing at her vivacity." Charlotte grew much stronger in this quiet, happy period at home. She paid occasional visits to her two great friends, and they in return came to Haworth.
"I have known Miss Bronte, as Miss Bronte, a long time; indeed, ever since they came to Haworth in 1819. But I had not much acquaintance with the family till about 1843, when I began to do a little in the stationery line. Nothing of that kind could be had nearer than Keighley before I began. They used to buy a great deal of writing paper, and I used to wonder whatever they did with so much.
A race also was frequent at the end. of these wedding expeditions, from the bridge to the toll-bar at Haworth. The race-course you will know to be anything but level." Into the midst of this lawless, yet not unkindly population, Mr. Bronte brought his wife and six little children, in February, 1820.
I was in bed ... the bell rang, I opened the door ... the King called out as usual, 'the Duke of Haworth' it's the name he goes by and then he went upstairs, but I didn't see him." "Was he alone?" "Ah, that's what everyone asks me! Of course he was alone ... the proof being that when they went up and found poor Mlle. Susy, nobody else was there, so ..." Juve interrupted: "All right.
It would have been much better, everyone told her, to leave her up at Haworth instead of bringing her into the smoky town; Maggie knew it, but her answer was always the same to this advice: "I couldn't bring myself to it," she said. "I niver could git through the work if I didn't know she was near me."
This visit has been described in a letter from which I am permitted to give extracts, which will show the impression made upon strangers by the character of the country round her home, and other circumstances. "Though the weather was drizzly, we resolved to make our long-planned excursion to Haworth; so we packed ourselves into the buffalo-skin, and that into the gig, and set off about eleven.
When he was not entertaining bagmen, he was either at Bradford painting bad portraits, or at Haworth pouring out verses, fearfully long, fatally fluent verses, and writing hysterical letters to the editor of Blackwood's Magazine.
After that, as the days went on, Rose Otway began to wear a most ungirlish look of strain and of suspense; but no one, to her secret relief, perceived that she looked any different all the sympathy of the Close was concentrated on Edith Haworth, for it was known that the cavalry had been terribly cut up.
If one were so fortunate as to have a pass, he could by dint of many stops and absurd inquiries and parleys, succeed in reaching the large gate posts on which was printed UNITED STATES RESERVATION. Through this the Knickerbocker Road, being especially privileged, passed without challenge, straight through the middle of the camp and out of its northern extremity, then through the pleasant little town of Haworth.
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