A RECOLLECTION OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
There is still living at Birstall ah old man -namod Joseph Marsden' Dixon, who his clear remembrance of Charlotte . Bronte. When • • La well over oighty—Charlotte Bronte used to come to Birstall to. see her friend Miss Ellen Nussey who lived near Mr. Dixon's home. "She ivor a 'lowish' woman" (said Mr. "Dixon to air interviewer), "and her eyes they looked a long way into her Lead. . . . She was thought nought about r.t th-t d"y She and Miss Nussey used to walV out together m the wood beamd whore Wonsleydalo Mill stands now.' It :s close upon fifty-three years since Charlotte Bronte died.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 185, 30 April 1908, Page 3
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107A RECOLLECTION OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 185, 30 April 1908, Page 3
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