Mr Brontë's Study has been distempered in plain white, because no evidence could be found that it was ever papered

 

Ann Dinsdale, acting director of the Bronte Society, in Patrick Bronte's study at the Parsonage Museum

Old situation

 

This is the only picture I can find of the new situation till now

I keep on searching

I am a little suprised that the walls are painted white because I always believed the walls were dove coloured.

 

Ellen Nussey, visiting Haworth for the first time some twenty years earlier, also found the Parsonage scrupulously clean but considerably more austere.

'There was not much carpet any where except in the Sitting room, and on the centre of the study floor. The hall floor and stairs were done with sand stone, always beautifully clean as everything about the house was, the walls were not papered but coloured in a pretty dove-coloured tint, hair-seated chairs and mahogany tables, book-shelves in the Study but not many of these elsewhere. Scant and bare indeed many will say, yet it was not a scantness that made itself felt . . .'