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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Patrick Bronte (1777-1861) famous Bronte sisters Charlotte Emily and Anne three of Victorian England’s greatest novelists but he was also a fascinating man in his own right. Born into poverty in Ireland he gained entry to St John’s College Cambridge and after ordination into the Church of England served for forty years as perpetual curate of Haworth. Here he campaigned for a school and for improvements to the water supply and wrote to the local press on important issues of the day. He was an able preacher and a published poet and after the early death of his wife required him to bring up his children alone he showed himself a caring father. Since the unsympathetic portrayal of him in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Bronte however he has generally been regarded as a remote eccentric and forbidding figure.