BronteBlog's tribute to Anne B on her 190th B-day!
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Often has it been said that had Anne belonged to a different family, she would have her name generally included 'among the best'. As things stand, though, she seems to be always either surprising people - a good thing - or being ignored and/or dismissed by them.
She was a very brave young woman of firm principles who actually deserves to be admired both for the life she lived and for the things she wrote. Throughout her life she had fight against being treated as the 'baby' of the Brontë family and 190 years after her birth she's still doing so in a way. But for the most part of those 190 years we believe that Anne Brontë has already been mature enough for her to stand on her own two feet and for the world to take her as seriously as she expected.
Often has it been said that had Anne belonged to a different family, she would have her name generally included 'among the best'. As things stand, though, she seems to be always either surprising people - a good thing - or being ignored and/or dismissed by them.
She was a very brave young woman of firm principles who actually deserves to be admired both for the life she lived and for the things she wrote. Throughout her life she had fight against being treated as the 'baby' of the Brontë family and 190 years after her birth she's still doing so in a way. But for the most part of those 190 years we believe that Anne Brontë has already been mature enough for her to stand on her own two feet and for the world to take her as seriously as she expected.