Patrick Bronte - Dudley Green

There have been many biographies about Charlotte Brontë and her siblings, but until now very little if anything about their father. It is tempting to speculate whether he would be quite so deserving of one if he had not been the father of such a famous family. Yet Dudley Green, who is a retired Classics teacher and editor of the first complete edition of the Revd Patrick Brontë's letters, has demonstrated here that he lived an interesting life himself. Born in rural Ireland in 1777, he spent his early years there before arriving in England in 1802 and settled in Yorkshire seven years later ... more