A new biography of the father of the Bronte sisters will be published next month.
Father of Genius is described as the first serious biography of Patrick Bronte for more than 40 years.
Writer Dudley Green believes Patrick, who survived his daughters, was a fascinating man in his own right.
The clergyman was born into poverty in Ireland, won a scholarship to Cambridge and was ordained into the Church of England.
He was perpetual curate of Haworth for 41 years, founded a school and campaigned for a proper water supply.
Publicity for the book said Patrick was often portrayed as a forbidding and unsympathetic figure. But it adds: "He was an opponent of capital punishment, a supporter of limited Catholic emancipation and a writer of poetry."
Father of Genius will be published by History Press at £20.
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