163 years ago to this day a happy event was taking place at St. Michael and All Angels' church in Haworth -the marriage of Charlotte Brontë to the church's assistant curate Arthur Bell Nicholls.

Why didnt the Bronte sisters marry?

Charlotte Brontë writes to the Reverend Henry Nussey, declining marriage. The 23-year-old Brontë told him that he would find her “romantic and eccentric” and not practical enough to be a clergyman's wife. ... Charlotte was born in 1816, one of six siblings born to an Anglican clergyman.

Who is Charlotte Bronte's husband?

Arthur Bell Nicholls progressed from curate to being Charlotte's 'dear boy'. He was at Haworth when first Branwell and then Emily and Anne died, leaving Charlotte the sole survivor. It was inevitable they should become closer.