She wrote it under a strange, conscientious, half-ascetic notion of accomplishing a painful penance and a severe duty … She had in the course of her life, been called on to contemplate, near at hand and for a long time, the terrible effects of talents misused and faculties abused hers was naturally a sensitive, reserved and dejected nature what she saw sank very deeply into her mind it did her harm.
The choice of subject in that work is a mistake – it was too little consonant with the character – tastes and ideas of the gentle, retiring, inexperienced writer. ‘Wildfell Hall’ it hardly appears to me desirable to preserve. She disagreed with the topic (spousal abuse, substance abuse, child abuse), and thought that it was incongruent with Anne’s personality. Then I found out why Anne was so underrated, and under-read: although The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was an instant success, Charlotte blocked it from being reprinted after Anne’s death. But I’m afraid that my answer to your very logical question is not going to be all that logical. Now, you may be a normal person who’s wondering: why in the world would I hold a grudge against a woman who had been dead a good 135 years before I was even born? Well, if you’re going to be reasonable about it. Actually, no, that’s not it: at one point I wasn’t just ambivalent. But I’ve always been ambivalent towards Charlotte.
Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall are some of my favorite books of all time, and I’ve spent considerable time and money on learning all I could about this fascinating family.īut what do I mean when I say that I love the Brontës? Well, it means that I adore Anne and Emily. Hell, anyone who scrolls down my Book Riot profile for two minutes flat knows how much I love the Brontës. Her father had been appointed as perpetual curate there, meaning an appointment for life: he and his family could live in the parsonage as long as he continued his work there. Their father encouraged the children to spend time in nature on the moors.Anyone who’s spent all of 10 minutes in conversation with me knows how much I love the Brontës. However, the family moved in April 1820, not long after Anne’s birth, to the 5-room parsonage at Haworth on the moors of Yorkshire, where the children would live most of their lives. She was born at the parsonage in Thornton, Yorkshire, where her father was serving. Patrick Brontë and his wife, Maria Branwell Brontë. Quote: "I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be."īrontë was the youngest of six siblings born in six years to the Rev.Published Works: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Agnes Grey (1847), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).Parents: Patrick Brontë and Maria Blackwell Brontë.
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