Was Patrick Brontë the Dr. Fauci of his Time?
How the Vicar Turned to Science after Disease Killed His Famous Daughters
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6 min readMay 11, 2020
In the time of the coronavirus pandemic, my imagination morbidly returns to Haworth, in Yorkshire, home of the Brontë sisters — Emily, Anne and Charlotte. In the mid-19th Century, epidemics of typhoid, cholera and tuberculosis ravaged the village.
