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Amy WilcocksonThe Conversation |
The youngest, quietest sister was over-edited and underestimated – Anne Brontë deserves better.
Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.
Celebrating literary anniversaries centres on many things including cultural connection, nostalgia, pride and a sense of belonging.
Unlike the usual Austen narratives, these two novels are concerned with wider, more serious issues that perhaps puts TV and film-makers off.
It was at Rydal Mount that Wordsworth truly settled, building a ‘writing hut’ and extensively landscaping the grounds to his own design.