zaterdag 29 juni 2013

On this day in 1854 Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholls were married at Haworth Church at 8.00am in the morning.

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 and it is currently in the collection of the BPM, as is the wedding bonnet.

What happened that day? Read:  she-looked-like-snowdrop
 It could have looked like this: haworth-village