Happy Birthday, Charles Brockden Brown and Anne Brontë!

[eldritchhobbit]

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

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[chorale]

I have read and loved The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. It's one of the books I hung onto when whswhs and I moved.

[eldritchhobbit]

Oh, I'm so tickled you love it, too. Isn't it wonderful?

[litlover12]

I love Anne Bronte! And it turns out she shares a birthday with my great-grandmother! :-)

[eldritchhobbit]

How fun is that? An auspicious day!

[i_llbedammned]

I like Anne Bronte much more than Charlotte Bronte.

[eldritchhobbit]

I wonder what else she might have written if she'd lived longer. (Ditto for Emily.) Such talented sisters!

[gilda_elise]

Anne Bronte's book is the only one of the three by the sisters that I've never read. I'll have to remedy that. I did stumble across her grave at Scarborough, though.

[eldritchhobbit]

I did stumble across her grave at Scarborough, though.

Oh wow - that's awesome!

I really do love the book. It's a very different take on the Byronic hero/anti-hero type (or maybe on her brother Bramwell, for that matter) than, say, Rochester or Heathcliff. I particularly like thinking about those three novels in conversation with each other.

I still have some of Charlotte's other works to read. I need to get on that!