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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![be liis i-('liu;l()ii,s failli, was compelled to go to tlie ));iiisli clnncli in oi'dci' l,li;il llie due saiicti(Hi of tlie law miglil be given to liis union. Such was Leeds at the beginning of this century. I*)usy, but free from ])nstle ; fairly intelhgcnt, yet by no means intellectual; with a keen eye to business, but a warm side for old manners and customs and the duties of hospitality, its people represented the sturdy English character in its best aspect in the days before railways, and electric telegraphs, and parliamentary reform, and penny newspapers had revolutionised the age. They have been sketched, so far as their moral characteristics are concerned, with admirable power and faithfulness in the pages of Charlotte Bronte. To understand the character of the men and women of the West Eidincr at the befjin- ning of the present century, indeed, one must go to * Shirley' and ' The Professor.' The genius of a great woman has there given permanence to the salient features which then characterised the York- shire tradesman or merchant.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
