Dudley Green
Autor von Patrick Bronte: Father of Genius
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Good factual biography of George Mallory, stuffed through with contemporary content. Its a very straightforward biography, but I have to say that I enjoyed how the other biography, "The Wildest Dream", explored the many facets of this driven and complex man who in many ways was ahead of his time.
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Considering that in recent years Patrick's reputation has already been fairly well rehabilitated (by Barker and Fraser, among others) from Elizabeth Gaskell's sometimes harsh treatment, the need for Green's rehabilitation isn't really that great. Of particular interest in Green's biography, though, is his treatment of Patrick as an Anglican cleric (in the evangelical, non-Puseyite wing), given Green's own family background of clerics as well as this biography's Forward by Rowan Williams, the new-retired Archbishop of Canterbury.
As regards the clerical elements of this biography, readers who don't know what I mean by evangelical versus Puseyite, who draw a blank at the Oxford Movement (whose most famous member, until he converted to Rome, was John Henry Newman), and who are unfamiliar with dissenting denominations like Methodists (dissenting, that is, after Methodism's break with Canterbury) and Baptists, would be well-advised to give heavy attention to Green's helpful endnotes and perhaps an occasional reference to Wikipedia.
4**** but not for the casual or first-time reader of Brontëana.… (mehr)