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Patrick Brontë: father of genius by Church of England;Brontë family;Brontë, Patrick;Green, Dudley is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 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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- Author
- Church of England;Brontë family;Brontë, Patrick;Green, Dudley
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781845886257
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Religion, Literary Fiction
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