The youngest, quietest sister was over-edited and underestimated – Anne Brontë deserves better.
- Research Fellow, English Literature, Queen Mary University of London
These poems span over 200 years and a range of emotions, from sorrow, to fear and hope.
Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.
Pourquoi retourne-t-on sans cesse à certains écrivains ? Entre transmission scolaire, tourisme culturel et stratégies de célébration, la fabrique de la gloire littéraire éclaire notre rapport au passé.
Celebrating literary anniversaries centres on many things including cultural connection, nostalgia, pride and a sense of belonging.
Unlike the usual Austen narratives, these two novels are concerned with wider, more serious issues that perhaps puts TV and film-makers off.
It was at Rydal Mount that Wordsworth truly settled, building a ‘writing hut’ and extensively landscaping the grounds to his own design.
He had a scandalous reputation in his lifetime but in death became angelic.
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