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1 online resource (384 pages) |
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Patrick Brontë (1777-1861) was the father of the famous "Brontë Sisters"-Anne, Charlotte, and Emily-three of Victorian England's greatest novelists, but he was also a fascinating man in his own right, and not nearly as unsympathetic a character as Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë would have us believe. Born into poverty in Ireland, he won a scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, and was ordained into the Church of England. He was perpetual curate of Haworth in Yorkshire for 41 years, bringing up four children, founding a school, and campaigning for a proper water supply. Although often portrayed as a somewhat forbidding figure, he was an opponent of capital punishment and the Poor Law Amendment Act, a supporter of limited Catholic emancipation and a writer of poetry. Dudley Green's scrupulously researched biography reveals the man behind the myths. |
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Print version record. |
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| Subject |
Brontë, Patrick, 1777-1861.
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Brontë family.
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Church of England -- Clergy -- Biography.
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Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Family relationships.
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Electronic books.
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Freading (Firm)
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Print version: Green, Dudley. Patrick Brontë. Stroud : Nonsuch, 2008. 9781845886257 (hbk.) (DLC)2009367214 |
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9780752462479 (e-pub) |
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9780752462479 |
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