The Brontes of Haworth

About the Book

The Brontës of Haworth: Yorkshire's Literary Giants - Their Lives, Works, Influences and Inspirations has been designed by a retired teacher of English as a general, overall guide and reference for use by highschool teachers, college and university professors, students and Brontë enthusiasts

The functional layout of the book in three parts allows readers and researchers to obtain a quick, thumbnail sketch of the lives of each of the Brontës, each of their seven major adult works, and the various influence and inspirations which affected their short, tragic lives and led them into careers in writing.

Each chapter in each section has been designed so that the brief background sketches of their lives and works can be read as an entity in itself, and from there, readers can choose which area they would like to pursue further through additional studies and research. The amount of research material on the Brontës is overwhelming, and it was the author's intention to briefly sort out various areas of potential interest for those just being introduced to this great family of English writers.

About the Author

David W. Harrison was born and raised in the south central town of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Completing his high school education there, he immediately entered Manitoba Teacher's College in Winnipeg where he graduated in June, 1963, with a Ceritificate in Education and began teaching in Thompson, Manitoba in the fall.

In September, 1965, the author returned to university and graduated with a BA at the University of Manitoba. After spending some time working short-term for the Federal Government and a brief stint in the Armed Forces, he returned to university and graduated with a B.Ed degree in 1969. For the next ten years he taught high school geography with the James-Assiniboia School District in Manitoba.

In 1979, Mr. Harrison and his young family moved to Penticton, B.C. and one year later he moved to Prince George, B.C. where he taught junior high school English for the next nineteen years. After his retirement in June, 1999, he continued on a research project which he buan in July 1993, after a short, but intriguing visit to the Bront&eulm; Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire.

At the same time, the author completed a third university degree (PBCE, 2001), and then continued full-time efforts on the completion of this informative, background text. At present, he is working on three, other partly-finished manuscripts, and in addition to these has several more works on individual Brontës planned for the future.