The blurb however did leave an impression. On the shelves in my local Waterstones, I at first had no Samantha Ellis’s Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life You can’t say the same about Anne’s work. They are taught in schools and are considered to have changed the way that literature is written. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) and Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) have been adapted countless times, in TV, theatre and cinema. I knew nothing about the plots of either of her novels, only that they weren’t considered as good as the works of her elder sisters. From tiny scraps and snippets vaguely recalled from popular culture and textbooks, I had an image of Anne Brontë as a sweet, simple woman obsessed with morality and religion who died young. The one with the book with the dull name ( Agnes Grey) and the book with the overly long name ( The Tenant of Wildfell Hall). If you had asked me about Anne Brontë a year ago, I would have shrugged my shoulders and said “Oh that one.” The boring one, the unaccomplished one.
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