Anne Brontë died at the age of 29 from tuberculosis, just a year after the publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Whilst she never achieved the same level of recognition as her sisters (Emily and Charlotte Brontë are known by almost everyone acquainted to British literature even today), and while her books were not as revolutionary in their narrative style (possessing neither Emily’s dramatic atmospheric charm that threatens to ravage your insides nor Charlotte’s spiralling interior monologue), they are remembered for being one of the first novels with such a strong proto-feminist character.Her characters deal with morality and she was one of the first to talk about an abusive relationship, and the happiness a woman can experience when she flees from such a situation instead of trying to modify herself according to her husband’s pain. [...]Though Anne’s works were initially less popular and less well-reviewed than those of her sisters, her contributions are increasingly appreciated in the context of 19th-century social reform, feminism, and literature that speaks to the experience of women struggling for autonomy. (Treya Sinha)
University of Manitoba News shares '10 holiday reading recommendations from UM Libraries' including
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëRecommended by Candice Lewis, Library Supervisor“I came very late to Jane Eyre, thinking it was stuffy and old-fashioned, so I had not given it a try. If you have never read it, you will be so pleasantly surprised; and, even if you have, please give it a re-read. I discover something different every time, plus the prose is sublime.”
AnneBrontë.org has a new YouTube video on Christmas at Wuthering Heights.
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