On marriage and feminism
“When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone-there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows at least will not be more than you can bear.”
- from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Pretty progressive, feminist thinking for 1848. Anne, of course, never married. She died at 29. The more I read about her, the more I suspect that her sister Charlotte didn't like her much. Charlotte, incidentally, is the only Bronte sibling ever to marry.
- from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Pretty progressive, feminist thinking for 1848. Anne, of course, never married. She died at 29. The more I read about her, the more I suspect that her sister Charlotte didn't like her much. Charlotte, incidentally, is the only Bronte sibling ever to marry.