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A 4 day ramble which includes first-hand recollections from people who knew the Brontë family. An interesting twelve-page list of all the subscribers which also lists all their local addresses to the rear. ‘To the 1,673 subscribers – representing 2,032 copies – whose names are published in this book; surely unique in number. It is certain but for you I should not have embarked on a voyage of publication of my “Saunter” in book form—‘ (Quote from preface by the author). ***Contents: I. Stoodly Pike; John Peston; Luddenden Dean Spa; Thos. Midgley; Luddensden Dean: Past and Present. II. Betty and Sammy Rothery’s Schools; Slode Farm; Cold Edge Bottom: Storm Realled; Old Sampson. III Robin Hoo’s Penny-stone; Sir Richard Saltonstall; White Rock; A Child’s drowning; “Old Eben’s School”; Cold Edge Dams; Brothers Drowned. IV. View from Slade; Veteran Gamekepper; Dr. Fawcett; Warley Moor Rocking Stone; Poaching Episodes; Disputed Footpaths. V. Fly Flat: Past and Present. VI. Sam and Betty: Their Remniscneces. VII. View from Nab Hill; Lost in Cock Hill Snowstorm; Oxenhope Worth Valley Line; A delightful Concert. VIII. Haworth: Turbulent Times. IX. Bronte Family’s Sorrows; Haworth Churchyard; Bronte Servants Tombs; The Rectory; Epitaphs; The Belfry; Inside the Church. X. Grimshaw’s Chapel; Bronte Waterfall; Grimshaw’s Pulpit; T’owd Gentleman’s Grave; Stanbury; A Lanchashire Tyke. XI. “Old Timmy”: His Home and Loom. XII. A Kindred Soul – Withens (“Wuthering Heights”). XIII. Walshaw Dean; A Disputed Footpath; The Reservoirs. XIV. Ridge Nook; “Comfortable Apartments”; Former Visit recalled; A rude awakening: “Six o’clock Mail; Wincing Scene through a glass; Blake Dean Chapel; Anniversary Day; A Night before a Peat Fire. XV. Bound for Widdop and Boulsworth; Picnic Scenes; Round Stone; John Wesley’s Visits; Challenged. XVI. Raid on Gamblers; Philip Gilbert Hammerton; The Cuckoo; Trackless Moor; Robin Hood’s Well; Boulsworth Summit; The Prospect. XVIII. Lad O. Crow Hill; Panorama from the Hill; “Three Laps”; Ponden Kirk. XVIII. Ponden Hall; Scar Top Chapel “Charity” Day; Stanbury; New Friends; Haworth Church school-house. XIX. Chats with Charlotte Bronte’s sunday school scholars; authorship of “Wuthering Heights”. XX. A Night at Haworth Church school-house; Bronte Treasures. XXI. Bronte Museum. XXII. A Day-scholar of Charlotte Bronte’s; Charlotte’s Bed and Collaret; Some statistics of Haworth’s Present Church; Last Service in Haworth Old Church; Homeword Bound; “The Balcony”; Grimshaw’s Home and Table; Marshlands. ***First impression of the true first edition – very hard to find in collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of Victorian illustrated first editions, local historians, those researching local family history (subscriber list), genealogists, Yorkshire and The Brontes.
