Ebook: Patrick Brontë: father of genius
Author: Church of England, Brontë family, Brontë Patrick, Green Dudley
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious, RELIGION--Christianity--Anglican, Women authors English--19th century--Family relationships, Women authors English--Family relationships, Clergy, Biography, Biographies, Brontë Patrick -- 1777-1861, Brontë family, Church of England -- Clergy -- Biography, Women authors English -- 19th century -- Family relationships, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious, RELIGION -- Christianity -- Anglican, Church of England, Women authors English -- Family relationships
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: The History Press
- City: Stroud Gloucestershire
- Language: English
- epub
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 also a fascinating man in his own right, and not nearly as unsympathetic a 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.
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