The Life of Charlotte Bronte-1
The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1
by Elizabeth Claghorn Gaskell
CHAPTER I
The Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe. Keighley station is on this line of railway, about a quarter of a mile from the town of the same name. The number of inhabitants and the importance of Keighley have been very greatly increased during the last twenty years, owing to the rapidly ext ...