Wedding bonnet and veil

Credit: Charlotte Bronte's wedding bonnet and veil (textile and lace) / © Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire, U.K. / The Bridgeman Art Library

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Charlotte Bronte's wedding bonnet and veil (textile and lace) Title:

© Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire, U.K. Location:

textile and lace Medium:

Charlotte Bronte (1816-55); Description:

19th (C19th) Charlotte-Bronte's-wedding-bonnet-and-veil-textil She looked 'like a snow-drop,' as they say. Her dress was white embroidered muslin, with a lace mantle, and white bonnet trimmed with green leaves.   bonnet theredshoescharlotte-brontes-wedding-bonnet-a-replica-of   When Charlotte was married on 29 June 1854 to Arthur Bell Nicholls, she wore a very simple, delicate white muslin gown and a green silk and lace bonnet. The bonnet has survived, but the gown was destroyed at the request of Nichols after his death in 1906 (Charlotte, of course, had died in 1855, only 9 months after their marriage). A replica was made reportedly by memory (by whose hands and from whose memory I have not been able to discover), however, and it is currently in the collection of the BPM, as is the wedding bonnet. fashioning-charlotte-bronte     bronte.adlibsoft my conscience is satisfied - a/sort of fawn-coloured silk Description   penultimate page of an autograph signed letter by Charlotte Bronte to an unknown correspondent giving details of the purchase of her wedding dress   Replica of Charlotte Bronte's wedding dress Description replica made from memory of Charlotte Bronte's wedding dress