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James Chesterton Bradley and fellow curates : [Patristic writings]

'Mr [James Chesterton] Bradley always found great pleasure in recalling the fact that he was the prototype of Mr Sweeting [in Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley], although he declared that the meetings of the curates at each other's lodgings were exclusively for a series of two-hours' readings of the Greek fathers, and not for the drunken orgies described in Shirley.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Chesterton Bradley and fellow curates     Print: Book

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