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GCSE English Literature · key term
A person who provides support or an appointment. Lady Catherine de Bourgh is Mr Collins’s patroness because she secured his Church position.
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Paper 1
A person who provides support or controls access to an appointment. Lady Catherine is Mr Collins’s patron because she secured his parish appointment.
Revise: Chapters 13 to 23A patron could control the right to nominate someone to such an appointment: Lady Catherine’s patronage has helped establish Collins in his profession.
Paper 2
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A person who provides support or an appointment. Lady Catherine is Mr Collins’s patroness because she has given him the living at Hunsford.
A person who supports another through money, influence or an appointment. Lady Catherine is Mr Collins’s patroness because she gives him his Church position.
Component 2
