Patrick Brontë

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school in his teens, became a gentleman's tutor, and finally...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

CB 's father suffered a second and quite debilitating stroke.

Ironically, this last piece, with a much-reprinted and similarly exaggerated and gossipy account in the Literary Gazette, prompted Ellen Nussey to suggest that Gaskell should write a true account of the life in order...

Thereafter, Patrick Brontë educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon 's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England,...

Her father presented CB with a notebook to encourage her to write in a good, plain and legible hand, but she continued writing miniature texts on the new world of Angria.

Patrick Brontë opened a National Church Sunday School at Haworth, to which Emily , and Anne , and CB contributed by teaching.

EG received a letter from Patrick Brontë asking her to write his daughter Charlotte 's biography.

My Sister's Husband relates how a woman discovers her brother-in-law to be as mad as any man in Bedlam. In Charlotte Brontë's Birth-PlaceGC relates how she heard Patrick Brontë preach an extempore...