The Lakes of Killarney naturally proved to be the place of greatest interest to them in this part of Ireland. Charlotte had described it in imagination, and her father, too, had a story connected with this district, entitled " The Maid of Killarney," which was his most ambitious effort in prose.
Beautiful Glengariff, Tralee, Cork, and probably Blarney Castle, were visited, and Charlotte Bronte says, " The scenery in some parts of Ireland exceeded all I had ever imagined."
Cork City
The Rose of Tralee
Accident with a horse
Gap of Dunloe
It was whilst visiting Killarney that she had a narrow escape of losing her life an incident not mentioned by Mrs. Gaskell in the Life, either because she decided not to pierce the " sacred doors " after the marriage, or else that Mr. Nicholls did not wish an account of his honeymoon to appear.
Charlotte Bronte tells, in a letter to Miss Winkworth, how they went through the gap of Dunloe, she on horseback. Finding that the horse was nervous and trembled when it came to a dangerous part, her husband asked her to alight, but as she did not feel afraid she declined. Mr. Nicholls was at the horse's head when suddenly it reared and Charlotte Bronte was thrown beneath it. Mr. Nicholls did not see that his wife had fallen off, and the horse kicked and trampled around her. In the few seconds that she was
on the ground she says she thought of the consequences to her husband and father if anything should happen to her. When her plight was seen, the horse was let loose and sprang over her. She was neither bruised by the fall, nor touched by the horse's hoofs, and she was grateful for more reasons than one.
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