5/11/2023 0 Comments Anne bronte novel grey![]() ![]() ![]() Samantha Ellis, in Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life (London, 2017 DRT ELD.DS.181944), describes how the taxi driver taking her to Thorp Green, the site of Anne’s second post, was unaware that there was another sister besides Charlotte and Emily. If we are to believe her sister Charlotte’s account of her, she had all these qualities the picture which Charlotte paints of her in the most delicate pastel tones suggests a muted meekness and piety which nowadays seems dangerously close to mawkishness. ![]() ![]() Meagre as the material rewards were, though, her months with the Ingham and Robinson families provided her with others – a fund of experience and a determination to expose the humiliation and exploitation suffered by other women in her situation.Īnne Brontë, drawn by her sister CharlotteĪs the youngest of three sisters, plus a scapegrace elder brother, Anne might have been expected to be accustomed to deferring to others and displaying the submissiveness required by her employers. In her first post Anne earned £25 per year. Patrick Brontë’s daughter Anne, born on 17 January 1820, had no choice but to earn her own living, and a teaching position, whether as a governess or in a school, offered respectability and an income, albeit a modest one. Those hard-headed words of Tennyson’s ‘Northern Farmer: New Style’ rang bitterly true in a family where ‘parson’s lass’ was the youngest of four surviving children out of six. Mun be a guvness, lad, or summut, and addle her breäd.’ ‘Parson’s lass ’ant nowt, an’ she weänt ’a nowt when ’e’s deäd, ![]()
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