Short Fiction · Character
Barty Gunliffe
A farmer whose life is bound up with the land he works and the affections he cannot easily separate from it.
supporting
Also known as Barty, Bartholomew Gunliffe, Gunliffe, old Gunliffe
First appearance: the parson s daughter of oxney colne
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A neighbor who falls into a pool and is rescued by Mally; later marries her.
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Barty Gunliffe belongs to a world where love and land are tangled together, and where a farmer's choices about both carry consequences for everyone around him. He is a man of the soil, practical and rooted, but the…
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Relationship types
- Romantic
- Other
Character groups
- Love, Loss & Land
- Dramatic Island Stories
- Protagonist
- Rural Romance & Family
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
Bessy Pryor’s internal struggle reaches its emotional and psychological peak as she wrestles with the conflict…
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- Mally Trenglos
romantic · ambivalent
Barty Gunliffe and Mally Trenglos share a passionate, though sometimes turbulent,… How this plays out →
- Mally Trenglos
romantic · ambivalent
Barty Gunliffe and Mally Trenglos share a passionate, though sometimes turbulent,… How this plays out →
- Mally Trenglos
romantic · ambivalent
Barty Gunliffe and Mally Trenglos share a passionate, though sometimes turbulent,… How this plays out →
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