Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholl's Honeymoon, 1854.

Back from honeymoon and time for Charlotte to admire her beautiful wedding day bonnet before storing it carefully away in the parsonage. After 34 days away the newlyweds probably wearily climbed the stairs of the                          parsonage to the bedroom they would only get to share for the next 8 months. Charlotte and Arthur were back in Haworth on 1st August 1854. But there was no rest for a busy Charlotte and Arthur. As Charlotte wrote in a letter to Ellen Nussey on 9th August 1854: "Since I came home I have not had an unemployed moment; my life is changed indeed - to be continually wanted - to be continually called for and occupied seems so strange: yet it is a marvellously good thing...As far as my experience of matrimony goes - I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself." She also wrote the following in a letter to Margaret Wooler on 19th September 1854: " My own life is more occupied than it used to be.: I have not so much time for thinkin

Homeward bound leaving Ireland.  We know that on Thursday 27th July 1854 Charlotte and Arthur were in Cork as Charlotte wrote to Catherine Winkworth, a friend of Elizabeth Gaskell whom she had met at Gaskell's Manchester home. We also know that the newlyweds expected to be back in Haworth on Tuesday 1st August 1854 as Charlotte wrote to Martha Brown at the Parsonage to alert her to their arrival home on that date. Dear Martha, I write a line to tell you that if all be well, we shall be home on Tuesday August 1st at about seven o'clock in the evening. I feel very anxious about Papa, the idea of his illness has followed me all through my journey and made me miserable sometimes when otherwise I should have been happy enough. I longed to come home a fortnight since, though perhaps it would not have done much good and I am sure you would have done your best for him. Have things ready for tea on Tuesday Evening and you had better have a little cold meat or ham as well as we shall pro