5/20/2023 0 Comments The Brontës by Juliet Barker![]() ![]() 492.Ĩ Juliet Barker, The Brontës (London: Phoenix Giant, 1997), p. 114.Ĥ Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, The Oxford Companion to the Brontës (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) p. In this paper, I hope to retrieve John from obscurity by examining the nature of his unique, close relationship with Mr Nicholls while revealing the esteemed place he held within the Brontë family.ģ Joseph Craven, A Brontë Moorland Village and its People: A History of Stanbury (Keighley: The Rydal Press, 1907), p. By the time he was eighteen, following the progress he had made in his studies, John was about to embark on a promising career when he received some very personal gifts from Patrick Brontë. When Mr Nicholls married Charlotte, John was one of the few people invited to attend the ceremony. Two newspaper articles featuring John's reminiscences add much to our knowledge about the private suffering of Mr Nicholls as well as John's closeness to his teacher. During his lessons, John witnessed first-hand Mr Nicholls' distress over his unrequited love for Charlotte Brontë-a situation John never forgot and was able to vividly recall later in life. ![]() ![]() He received this on Saturday mornings from the Rev Arthur Bell Nicholls. ![]() When he was thirteen, John became a pupil-teacher at the school in Haworth, a role for which he required extra tuition. Much is known about the people who were close to the Brontës, but John Robinson, a young boy who lived one mile from Haworth, in Stanbury, is given only a sentence or two in several major biographies. ![]()
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