Charlotte would “sit alone in the parlour with just the sound of the clock ticking".

Photograph from  facebook/ Harry Hartley

For many years the Barracloughs were a very important and well-known family of clock-makers, and Emily Brontë even used the name Mosley Barraclough in Wuthering Heights.  John Barraclough (1773-1835) lived in this house and, when the lead weights in the upstairs window were replaced during renovation, his signature, found on the back of the wooden cover piece, can be seen in the downstairs bar along with the original front door key.

There is a John Barraclough clock in the Parsonage belonging to Patrick Brontë and Ellen Nussey, Charlotte’s great friend, wrote how, after the death of her siblings, Charlotte would “sit alone in the parlour with just the sound of the clock ticking.”

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Recent photographes of the Bronte Parsonage.

I found these beautiful photographs on the Facebookpage of

Harry Hartley

I am thankful that he gave me permission to place them on this blog

Harry:

The exhibits at the museum are constantly changing so there’s always more to see and I didn’t even photograph everything so there’s so much more to see and nothing beats the the full experience of being there in person and being immersed in the history. Haworth has so much more to do with loads of fun and themed weekends, great shops, fantastic architecture, beautiful walks on the moors and valleys, steam train line, thriving artistic scene, loads of great places to stay, many pubs and restaurants and so much more. A must see for anyone holidaying in Britain I highly recommend coming here to visit they won’t be disappointed. 

Ge’ thissen dahn ter ‘aworth thas bahn ter si it’s grand

 Tha’ll reckon it caps owt a seer it’s the best place in t’ land

Patrick's room

The children's room when they were small

And Emily's room whene she wrote her beautiful poems

The kitchen

Charlotte's wedding bonnet

"She looked like a snowdrop"

Look for more photographes on Harry Hartleys Facebookpage: 

facebook/ HarryHartley

A whispering of leaves and a perfume of flowers.

"...a whispering of leaves and a perfume of flowers.." things haven't changed much since Charlotte Bronte visited! 

The roses on the pergola have started to flower and I think they are worth three photos all to themselves  elizabethgaskellhouse

The Oxford Companion to the Brontës Anniversary edition.

The Oxford Companion to the Brontës Anniversary edition
by Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith
New Foreword by Clare Harman
ISBN: 9780198819950
Oxford University Press

This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontës - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father, and their brother Branwell.

Expanded entries surveying the Brontës' lives and works are supplemented by entries on friends and acquaintances, pets, literary and political heroes; on the places they knew and the places they imagined; on their letters, drawings and paintings; on historical events such as Chartism, the Peterloo Massacre, and the Ash
antee Wars; on exploration, slavery, and religion. Selected entries on the characters and places in the Brontë juvenilia provide a glimpse into their early imaginative worlds, and entries on film, ballet, and musicals indicate the extent to which their works have inspired others. A new foreword to the text has been also penned by Clare Harman, award-winning writer and literary critic, and recent biographer of Charlotte Brontë.

This is a unique and authoritative reference book for the research student and the general reader. The A-Z format, extensive cross-referencing, classified contents, chronologies, illustrations, and maps, both facilitate quick reference and encourage further exploration. This Companion is not only invaluable for quick searches, but a delight to browse, and an inspiration to further reading.

Nick Holland: brilliant time looking at Bronte manuscripts in Leeds.

From the facebookpage of Nick Holland. facebook/nick.holland
Had a brilliant time looking at Bronte manuscripts in Leeds today - an excellent start to what will be an excellent week ahead!

Nick Holland The poem is in the handwriting of Arthur Bell Nicholls who transcribed some of his wife's poetry.