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Patrick Bronte

Dudley Green
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  • ISBN 9781845886257
  • Weight: 780g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008
  • Publisher: Nonsuch Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Patrick Bronte (1777-1861) was the father of the famous Bronte Sisters; Anne, Charlotte and Emily, three of Victorian England's greatest novelists, but he was a fascinating man in his own right and not nearly such an unsympathetic character as Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte 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 forty-one 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.

This is the first serious biography of Patrick Bronte for more than forty years.
About Dudley Green
Dudley Green is retired schoolmaster and former president of the Bronte Society, by which he is recognised as an expert on Patrick. He edited The Letters of Patrick Bronte, the first such complete collection, for Nonsuch in 2005, and also wrote Because It's There: the Life of George Mallory (Tempus, 2005). He lives in Clitheroe.

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