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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 384
Utgivningsdatum: 2010-05-17
Förlag: Nonsuch Publishing
Medarbetare: Williams, Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Rowan (foreword)
Illustratör/Fotograf: Illustrations
Illustrationer: Illustrations
Dimensioner: 196 x 127 x 12 mm
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ISBN: 9780752454450

Patrick Bronte

Name: Patrick Bronte
Price: 170.00 SEK
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Author: Dudley Green
ISBN: 9780752454450

Father of Genius

av Dudley Green

Häftad, Engelska, 2010-05-17

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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.

Dudley Greenis a retired schoolmaster and former president of the Bronte Society, by which he is recognized as an expert on Patrick. He edited "The Letters of Patrick Bronte," the first such complete collection, and also wrote "Because It's There: the Life of George Mallory.""