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{"title":"The Dukedom of Bronte and the Name 'Brontë'","authors":"S. Whitehead","doi":"10.1179/030977600794195409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/030977600794195409","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The 13th August 1999 was the 200th anniversary of the Dukedom of Brontë. The following text is abstracted from a lecture delivered at the Brontë Parsonage Museum to commemorate the anniversary. It deals with the origins of the Brontë name, the history and descent of the Dukedom, and the possibility of any connection between the two.","PeriodicalId":230905,"journal":{"name":"Brontë Society Transactions","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131611144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"More on the Robinsons and their Relations","authors":"T. Winnifrith","doi":"10.1179/030977600794195427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/030977600794195427","url":null,"abstract":"Mr Robinson is said by Winifred Gerin to be related to the Marquis of Ripon. The marquis ate fell into abeyance in 1923, but its fortunes can be traced in The New Extinct Peerage by L. C. Cave. Sir Will aim RobinsoJ;1 was created a baronet in 1689. He had a number of sons, but only two left any issue. The second son and third baronet, Sir Tancred Robinson, had two sons who became baronets but they had no heirs. When Sir Norton Robinson died in 1795 the title passed to the descendants of Sir William's youngest son, Thomas, who as a diplomat, had been elevated to the peerage as the first Baron Grantham. Lord Grantham's grandson became Prime Minister briefly in 1828, although by that time he had acquired the title of Viscount Goderich. Goderich was an undistinguished Prime Minister and though he was further elevated to being Earl of Ripon and continued to hold cabinet rank in the 1840s, he is hardly as famous as Canning, his predecessor as premier, or his successor, Wellington, or even his own son, a successful viceroy of India, who was, after the Brontes' time, promoted to being Marquis of Ripon. The viceroy had one son, but he left no heirs, and the Robinson baronetcy, Grantham baronetcy, Goderich viscountcy, Ripon earldom, and one other peerage that had been collected on the way, all died out. This was a very grand family for the Robinsons of Thorp Green to claim a connection with, but the degree of kinship must have been fairly remote. Since Cave names all the descendants of Sir William Robinson, Edmund Robinson must have descended from a younger brother of the first baronet, or some remoter ancestor, and cannot have been closer to the Earl of Ripon than a third cousin. Nevertheless, we can see the","PeriodicalId":230905,"journal":{"name":"Brontë Society Transactions","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124397619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reviews and Notices","authors":"C. Lemon","doi":"10.1179/030977600794195436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/030977600794195436","url":null,"abstract":"Charles Lemon subtitles his collection 'The best from one hundred years of the Transactions of the Bronte Society'. As every reader of this will know, Transactions has always been the publication where scholarly discussion of the Bronte works is promoted, but it has also tried to be a broad church, with pieces on new discoveries and acquisitions, contributions by non-specialists (medical, topographical, historical and so on), personal tributes, reviews of the many adaptations of the novels (plays, television serials, musicals, operas) and some coverage of Society matters. Charles Lemon's selection offers us a delightful stroll through backnumbers, and since he introduces each item himself it is, like most Society walks, an extremely well-conducted one. Sometimes, because of juxtaposition, we can forget we are walking not only through the fields of Bronte scholarship but also through the years: Butler Wood's eloquent paean to the Haworth moorlands seems to bring a snappish rebuke from the next article, Lady Wilson's: 'I got quickly tired of the insistence of these ... writers on the character of the country which surrounds Haworth.' In fact, however, seventeen years separates these pieces, so no rebuke can have been intended. If rebuke had been called for, however, Lady Wilson was clearly the one to give it. Her plea for the governess-employing classes involved so much trouble for the Society's powers-that-be that the letters about her remained for decades in a file closed to ordinary library readers. Rambling through the years as we do, we start noticing how attitudes on all sorts of matters have changed. To take just one example: Patrick Bronte in the early essays gets a very poor press. Butler Wood speaks of his 'indifference to the society of the children and his generally eccentric habits'; Dorothy]. Cooper mentions as fact 'the semi-Calvinist creed at home', while Donald Hopewell says that 'For Patrick Bronte the ministry was a means of livelihood and not even his most fervent admirers could accuse him of an excess of spirituality.' Ivy Holgate even has him withdrawing 'from his neighbours and fellowcreatures, emerging only to perform his ministerial duties.' How emphatically the whirligig of time","PeriodicalId":230905,"journal":{"name":"Brontë Society Transactions","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127299117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}