Anne Brontë — a remark

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“Even if he fail in this, he has done something, if he has afforded a healthy and rational amusement.”

Defending literature that offers wholesome pleasure as well as instruction · Preface to Agnes Grey

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Anne Brontë

17 January 1820–28 May 1849

In the pantheon of Victorian literature, Anne Brontë stands as perhaps the most underestimated literary genius of her era. Born into a family that would produce three of the nineteenth century's most celebrated novelists, Anne has long lived in the shadow of her more famous sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Yet this…

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