![]() ![]() He encouraged his children to explore the moors and to take an interest in natural history, habits which provided them with a deep love of nature and a sense of personal freedom. An eccentric and something of a hypochondriac, Patrick Brontë was not the irascible, neglectful father of Brontë legend. ![]() Intent on upward mobility, Charlotte's father had evinced remarkable cleverness and determination in educating himself, studying for a degree at St John's College, Cambridge, and patiently making a career as an evangelical Anglican. On 20 April 1820 the Brontë family moved to the bleak moorland village of Haworth, where Patrick Brontë was appointed perpetual curate, a rapid rise for a man who had been born in an Irish crofter's cottage. ![]()
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