Happy birthday to
Charles Brockden Brown (17 January, 1771 - 22 February, 1810) and
Anne Brontë (17 January, 1820 - 28 May, 1849)!
"Yet I will persist to the end. My narrative may be invaded by inaccuracy and confusion; but if I live no longer, I will, at least, live to complete it. What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters?"
- Charles Brockden Brown,
Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale (1789)
“Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?”
- Anne Brontë,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)