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Jun 23, 2024 · Anne Brontë (born Jan. 17, 1820, Thornton, Yorkshire, Eng.—died May 28, 1849, Scarborough, Yorkshire) was an English poet and novelist, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë and author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
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Jun 27, 2024 · Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847. Widely considered a classic, it gave a new truthfulness to the Victorian novel with its realistic portrayal of the inner life of a woman, noting her struggles with her natural desires and social condition.
Jun 20, 2024 · The Bronte Sisters: Selected Poems by Stevie Davies (Editor); Anne Bronte; Charlotte Bronte; Emily Brontë Although the Brontës have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic.
Jun 16, 2024 · Reconstructions of the Brontë sisters as exceptional women, worthy of empathy and admiration by twenty-first-century readers, increasingly rely on the entanglements of the sisters’ literary ambitions and limiting contemporary gender roles.
5 days ago · A punch cartoon depicting Robert Peel as Pecksniff, the hypocritical Dickens character. It’s also important of course to remember that large sections of the country were completely disenfranchised. Women over 21 wouldn’t be allowed the vote until 108 years after Anne was born. The vast majority of men, including Patrick and Branwell Brontë ...
Jul 2, 2024 · ‘Feminine Construction of Masculinity in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’, University of Stellenbosch (Sept. 2006)
Jun 23, 2024 · A letter sent to Laetitia by Charlotte from Filey earlier in the month. Brussels changed Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Laetitia Wheelwright forever, so I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been asked to give a talk to the Brussels Brontë Group in May next year. I’ll bring you more details closer to the date.
