After
Anne Bronte was buried at Scarborough, Charlotte Bronte could
not bear to stay at the resort any longer.
On 7th June 1849 together with her friend Ellen Nussey, they
moved 10 miles down the east coast to Filey lodging at Cliff House,
built in 1824.
Take
a 360 degree outside Cliff House here...
On
May 23rd 1852 Charlotte returned to the same lodgings. She had
been ill for some time and it was felt a change of air might help
her. On 6th June she wrote to Ellen Nussey:
"I am in our old lodgings at Mrs. Smith's; not, however,
in the same rooms, but in less expensive apartments. They seemed
glad to see me, remembered you and me very well, and, seemingly,
with great good will. The daughter who used to wait on us is just
married. Filey seems to me much altered; more lodging-houses -
some of them very handsome - have been built; the sea has all
its old grandeur."
June
2nd 1852 Charlotte wrote to her father:
"I have not bathed yet as I am told it is too cold and
too early in the season. The sea is very grand. Yesterday was
a somewhat unusually high tide - and I stood about an hour on
the cliffs yesterday afternoon - watching the tumbling in of great
tawny turbid waves - that make the whole shore white with and
filled the air with a sound hollower and deeper than thunder.....
When the tide is out - the sands are wide - long and smooth and
very pleasant to walk on."
