David W. Harrison was born and raised in the south central town of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Completing his high school education there, he immediately entered Manitoba Teacher's College in Winnipeg where he graduated in June, 1963, with a Ceritificate in Education and began teaching in Thompson, Manitoba in the fall. In September, 1965, the author returned to university and graduated with a BA at the University of Manitoba. After spending some time working short-term for the Federal Government and a brief stint in the Armed Forces, he returned to university and graduated with a B.Ed degree in 1969. For the next ten years he taught high school geography with the James-Assiniboia School District in Manitoba. In 1979, Mr. Harrison and his young family moved to Penticton, B.C. and one year later he moved to Prince George, B.C. where he taught junior high school English for the next nineteen years. After his retirement in June, 1999, he continued on a research project which he buan in July 1993, after a short, but intriguing visit to the Bront&eulm; Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire. At the same time, the author completed a third university degree (PBCE, 2001), and then continued full-time efforts on the completion of this informative, background text. At present, he is working on three, other partly-finished manuscripts, and in addition to these has several more works on individual Brontes planned for the future.
