Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth and the Brontë Interlude

Contact with scenes and conditions 'too deplorable for description' roused him to publicise issues such as the state of the operatives in the cotton industry. Unsuccessful application to the staff of the Manchester Infirmary, he felt, would debar future scientific study, and since the exacting demands of his involvement with the poor were making inroads into his health he accepted the post of Assistant Poor Law Commissioner when the