“I have no alternative between not writing at all, and writing what first comes into my head.”
About Bernard Barton
31 January 1784–19 February 1849
In the quiet market town of Woodbridge, Suffolk, where the River Deben winds its way toward the North Sea, lived one of the 19th century's most prolific yet paradoxical literary figures. Bernard Barton (1784-1849) occupied a unique position in English literature—a devout Quaker who found himself torn between the…