Carlotte Brontë, Her School Friends, and the Roe Head Album

'Pray don't forget me my sweet little thing': Charlotte Brontë's Relationship with Ann Cook

“…6 Born in 1825, Ann Cook was the daughter of Thomas Cook, 'a wealthy and influential Dewsbury banker and cloth manufacturer'. 7 Closer in age to Anne Brontë than to Charlotte, Miss Cook shared an intimate friendship with Anne while also being one of Charlotte's students at Roe Head. Ellen Nussey noted to Elizabeth Gaskell that Anne Brontë had given Cook 'a great deal of quiet affection and genial notice', but it took a while before Charlotte saw Cook as anything but a nuisance.…”