Rebecca Chesney:
I am a visual artist based in Preston, UK. The Bronte Weather Project is a year long research residency based at The Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth and will run from September 2011.
During the residency I will be studying the local weather patterns at Haworth and also reading texts by the Brontes to see how they were influenced and inspired by the weather.
http://www.bronteweather.blogspot.com/
From this weblog:
Letter to Ellen Nussey dated October 1836
"It is a Stormy evening and the wind is uttering a continual moaning sound that makes me feel very melancholy - At such times, in such moods as these Ellen it is my nature to seek repose in some calm, tranquil idea and I have now summoned up your image to give me rest There you sit, upright and still in your black dress and white scarf - your pale, marble-like face - looking so serene and kind - just like reality - I wish you would speak to me -."
Charlotte Bronte
I'm reading through letters by Charlotte Bronte and have found this weather reference in a letter held in the Huntington Library, San Marino in California. I've had a quick look to see if they have a copy on their web database, but it's not looking like it's online. I can feel an essential research trip coming on...*
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