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    The forgotten Brontë sister

    Jan 15, 2020 4 minutes

    PITY poor Anne Brontë, the youngest, overshadowed and least read of the Brontë sisters. Regarded rather as the runt of the literary litter, Anne, like the last born in many large families, has always needed to elbow her siblings aside for the attention that is her due. It is her fate that The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, one of the first great feminist novels, is inevitably shelved alongside Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, two of the greatest novels ever written.

    Anne was born on January 17, 1820, the sixth and final child of her Cornish mother, Maria Branwell, and Irish

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