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When Patrick Brontë brought his wife and family to the moorland village of Haworth in the early spring of 1820, he came to a place well suited to nurture the genius of his children. It is sometimes assumed, however, that for the father of the family the step was a retrogressive one, taking him into a bleak environment alien to his nature and his tastes. Increased knowledge of his character and background has shown that this was far from being the case.1 He was a man who, from childhood, had been accustomed to country life and for whom the hills and moors that surround Haworth were among its chief attractions.
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See John Lock and W. T. Dixon, A Man of Sorrow, 2nd edn (London and Connecticut, 1979).
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See John Hewish, Emily Brontë (London, 1969);
Tom Winnifrith, The Brontës and their Background (London, 1973);
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See Winifred Gérin, Emily Brontë (Oxford, 1971) p. 15.
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See Jane Eyre, chs 35, 37 and F. B. Pinion, A Brontë Companion (London, 1975) p. 113.
See F. E. Ratchford, The Brontës’ Web of Childhood (New York, 1941) p. 47.
See Derek Stanford, in Ada Harrison and Derek Stanford, Anne Brontë. Her Life and Work (London, 1959), Part Two, pp. 167–8.
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See Edward Chitham, “Emily Brontë and Shelley”, in Edward Chitham and Tom Winnifrith, Brontë Facts and Brontë Problems (London, 1983).
Patricia Thomson, George Sand and the Victorians (London, 1977) p. 76.
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Duthie, E.L. (1986). The Common Heritage. In: The Brontës and Nature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18373-9_1
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