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The Brontës: Veins Running Fire
The story of the Brontë family is one of incredible romance, immense genius and haunting sadness.
From humble beginnings in Ireland the Rev Patrick Brontë rose to the very heart of the reforming evangelical movement of the nineteenth century; he was sponsored at Cambridge University in England by its great leader William Wilberforce. Patrick s daughters Emily, Charlotte and Anne came onto the pages of literary history with, amongst other work, their novels Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall which now grip the imagination of millions of people in the twenty-first century.
Branwell, the most promising of Patrick's children, is mourned for the wreck of his talent. All had the fire of deep emotions running in their veins.
In this book Derick Bingham seeks to trace the influence of Patrick Brontë's unfaltering evangelical faith on the lives and work of all his children. Here is faith in the face of unremitting tragedy, imagination soaring out of pitiful sadness and doubt vying with hope for dominance.
The world will truly never see such a literary family again whose life story is very bit as fascinating as their fiction.
From humble beginnings in Ireland the Rev Patrick Brontë rose to the very heart of the reforming evangelical movement of the nineteenth century; he was sponsored at Cambridge University in England by its great leader William Wilberforce. Patrick s daughters Emily, Charlotte and Anne came onto the pages of literary history with, amongst other work, their novels Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall which now grip the imagination of millions of people in the twenty-first century.
Branwell, the most promising of Patrick's children, is mourned for the wreck of his talent. All had the fire of deep emotions running in their veins.
In this book Derick Bingham seeks to trace the influence of Patrick Brontë's unfaltering evangelical faith on the lives and work of all his children. Here is faith in the face of unremitting tragedy, imagination soaring out of pitiful sadness and doubt vying with hope for dominance.
The world will truly never see such a literary family again whose life story is very bit as fascinating as their fiction.
232 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2008
About the author
Derick Bingham
38 books6 followersDerick Bingham is a teaching pastor with Christ Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has written over twenty books and broadcasts weekly for TransWorld Radio into Europe and the Middle East. He is a director on the board of the New Irish Choir and Orchestra and travels internationally teaching and preaching the Scriptures. He lives in Belfast with his wife Margaret.
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June 20, 2012
I enjoyed reading this book despite the fact that it appeared not to have been proof read. It opened up the lives of the Brontes and gave a behind-the-scenes glimpse at this very talented family. Lives that experienced more sorrow than joy yet produced some of the finest English literature to date.
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