If It Weren’t for Charlotte
Alice Spawls: The Brontës, 16 November 2017
“... to Haworth as soon as you can,’ Charlotte wrote on 31 August, ‘the heath is in bloom now; I have waited and watched for its purple signal as the forerunner of your coming.’ In the event a thunderstorm before Gaskell’s arrival ruined the heather’s glorious colour.* Branwell’s portrait of his sisters c.1834 with a painted-over ... ”