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Patrick Brontë ( / ˈbrɒnti /, commonly /- teɪ /; [1] born Patrick Brunty; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish Anglican minister and author who spent most of his adult life in England. He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son.
Reverend Patrick Brontë | Bronte Parsonage Museum. Patrick Brunty (or Prunty) was the eldest of 10 children of Hugh Brunty, an agricultural labourer, and Eleanor – or Alice – McClory, of Drumballyroney, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Dec 22, 2016 · Family affairs. Hovering in the film’s background is their clever, unusual father, who propelled himself from hardscrabble Ireland to Cambridge University. He carried a loaded pistol with him at...
Branwell Brontë, self-portrait. Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) was considered by his father and sisters to be a genius, while the book by Daphne du Maurier (1986), The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë, contains numerous references to his addiction to alcohol and laudanum.
Brontë, Patrick (1777–1861), Church of England clergyman and writer, was born 17 March 1777, in Emdale, Drumballyroney, Co. Down, the eldest of the ten children of Hugh Prunty , or Brunty, a protestant farm labourer, and Eleanor or Alice (née McClory), born a catholic.
May 21, 2017 · Patrick Brontë’s first foray into poetry was entitled ‘Cottage Poems’, and like much of his writing it centres upon the importance of faith and religion. Published in 1811, it contains a lengthy introduction by Patrick in which he explains that his poetry is intended for those who would not normally read verse:
Aug 11, 2017 · Patrick Branwell Brontë (Fig 1) was a talented intelligent boy, with three adoring sisters who were later to be preoccupied with his sullied life. In youth he was an essayist, poet and artist.
