January 2011
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This Day in Women's History: Anne Bronte born in ...
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Anne was the youngest of the three writing Brontë sisters, and the second of the two to die (Emily died first). Charlotte thought that Anne was an inferior writer, but critics generally disagree.
Her first novel was Agnes Grey. In it she portrays the life of a governess, basing it undoubtedly on her own experience working as a governess for several families.
Her second...
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“… for our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your...”
– Edward Fairfax Rochester in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (via missourimel)
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering...”
– Helen Burns in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (via missourimel)
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are...”
– Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (via ladysue)