The moors were brown and dull.

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Hello Geri! I'm so happy that Charlotte and Elizabeth had met...there couldn't have been a better person at the time to write the biography...Mrs. Gaskell did a beautiful, realistic, and very touching job of it. If I remember right, the heather on the moors had had a bad time of it that September and Elilzabeth never got to see the moors in all their purple glory, much to Charlotte's chagrin. xo J~

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Hi Jessica,What you write is true. In the Brontes of Juliet Barker I read: When Mrs. Gaskell was in her cab to go to the parsonage she found everything lead-coloured, even the moors, which should have been a blaze of purple, were brown and dull.

Greetings from Geri.