Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 2, 2025
one of the places that sent forth its fighting men to the famous old battle of Flodden Field, and a village not many miles from Haworth.
But a path leads beyond the graveyard to "a little and a lone green lane", Emily Brontë's lane that leads to the open moors. It is the genius of the Brontës that made their place immortal; but it is the soul of the place that made their genius what it is. You cannot exaggerate its importance. They drank and were saturated with Haworth.
Some fragments of correspondence, not all very interesting, and his own allusion to an attack of illness, are our only record of the poet's general life during the interval which separated the publication of 'Pippa Passes' from his second Italian journey. An undated letter to Miss Haworth probably refers to the close of 1841. . . . I am getting to love painting as I did once.
Things had gone on more comfortably while she was away than Charlotte had dared to hope, and she expresses herself thankful for the good ensured and the evil spared during her absence. Soon after this some proposal, of which I have not been able to gain a clear account, was again mooted for Miss Bronte's opening a school at some place distant from Haworth.
Up to this time the publishers had not known whether they were women or men. "On reaching Mr. Smith's," writes Mrs. Gaskell, "Charlotte put his own letter into his hands, the same letter which had excited so much disturbance at Haworth Parsonage only twenty-four hours before.
Several of the more influential inhabitants of Haworth and the neighbourhood were mill-owners; they remonstrated pretty sharply with him, but he believed that his conduct was right and persevered in it.
Night passed; morning came, and I rose without having known a moment's slumber. So utterly worn out was I when I got to Derby, that I was again obliged to stay there all night." "Dec. 17th. "Here I am at Haworth once more. I feel as if I had come out of an exciting whirl.
Browning answered, and soon several letters a week were going in each direction. Not quite so many missives were being received by Fanny Haworth; and as for Lizzie Flower, I fear she was quite forgotten. She fell into a decline, drooped and died in a year. Mr. Browning asked for permission to call on Miss Barrett.
Her death was signalized by the appearance this time, I am told, unexpected of another brilliant comet, which passed so near the earth as to come into contact with it. Miss Blagden Letters from Mr. Browning to Miss Haworth and Mr. Procter. The friend who was nearest, at all events most helpful, to Mr.
During the winter he wrote much. "Robert deserves no reproaches," his wife tells her friend Miss Haworth in May, "for he has been writing a good deal this winter working at a long poem, which I have not seen a line of, and producing short lyrics which I have seen, and may declare worthy of him."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking