![]() ![]() Last year I chose The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, a book I had not read since I was a teenager. ![]() A brave, strongly feminist writer well ahead of her time - and her more celebrated siblings - and who has much to teach us today about how to find our way in the world.Įvery few months, I like to re-read an old classic that I haven’t read for a while. Take Courage is Samantha's personal, poignant and surprising journey into the life and work of a woman sidelined by history. Until, that is, she started questioning that devotion and, in looking more closely at Emily and Charlotte, found herself confronted by Anne instead. Or that's what Samantha Ellis, a life-long Emily and Wuthering Heights devotee, had always thought. The less talented Brontë, the other Brontë. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. ![]() Anne Brontë is the forgotten Brontë sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. ![]()
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