tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post3227320144571070580..comments2024-03-26T23:35:38.726+01:00Comments on the Brontë Sisters: On this day in 1861Geri Meftah Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596915249757782612noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post-76926940499147347672012-10-12T08:20:23.234+02:002012-10-12T08:20:23.234+02:00I just read Sutcliffe Sowden's younger brother...I just read Sutcliffe Sowden's younger brother, George Sowden's "Recollections of the Brontës " writing in the 1890's. George Sowden was ordinated with Mr. Nicolls and was a good friend to him as well . <br /><br />George Sowden tells an amusing story about an event that happened when a group of the local clergymen were discussing the Prayer Book .<br /><br />"They were arguing on the way to interpret some direction in the Prayer Book and in the end, all were of the same opinion, except Mr Nicholls alone. <br /><br />To settle the point,if possiable,"Wheatley on Common Prayer" was brought out , and the majority were triumphant when it was found that this great authority took thier view.<br /><br />" But look ", said the minority of one ( Mr. N), " there is a note at the foot of the page , what does it say? " It actually <i>did</i> say "Doctor Nicholls dissents" There after , of course Mr. N was constantly spoken of as "The Doctor". <br /><br />lolAnnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post-24885014724316983542012-10-04T08:43:17.545+02:002012-10-04T08:43:17.545+02:00Sutcliffe Sowden's sudden death was quite a bl...Sutcliffe Sowden's sudden death was quite a blow for Arthur Bell Nicholls. Coming as it did the same year he lost his father-in-law, Patrick, his last living link to Charlotte.<br /><br />Sowden married Arthur and Charlotte, conducted Charlotte's funeral and Patrick's as well earlier in 1861. He was familyAnnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com