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“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”

literature posters; the tenant of wildfell hall by anne bronte

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Celebrating Anne Brontë’s writing, holding up her work as equal to her sisters’, pointing out that in many ways her books are the most radical and feminist of the three: 

Yes please!

Insisting that Anne was the only sensible or feminist Brontë and portraying Charlotte and Emily as a pair of internalized misogynists who romanticized abuse and toxic masculinity:

No, thank you.

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Jane Austen is for day reading, the Brontes are for storm and/or night reading, I don't make the rules.

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Anne Bronte is such a boss, though.

So all the Bronte sisters (not doing the fancy dots because I’m lazy & exhausted) were writers, as well know, and their brother was for a bit.

They were such an ill family, and it really sucks that they all died, but there was more to them than writing thematically perfect novels, having a messed-up, slowly dying family, and being women authors who Beat the Dude System or whatever y’all want to say about them.

One of my favorite theories that I’ve ever read, and that I 100% believe is true, is that each of the Bronte sisters in one of their signature novels was dealing with a different way they were processing their complicated relationship with their older brother, Branwell.

Charlotte’s answer to dealing with her very own wildman is shown through Jane Eyre. She believes she can tame Branwell as Jane tames Rochester.

Emily’s answer to dealing with her very own widlman is shown through Wuthering Heights. She believes she can out-wild Branwell as her heroine, losing her sanity in the process, perhaps, but remaining equal to him.

And then there’s Anne. Our dear Anne.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall gets wayyyyy too little attention, y’all, but it is great. In it, a woman leaves behind her abusive husband and finds a country man who treats her right.

Basically, Anne has it together. She so did. And I will respect this boss of a woman forever, under-appreciated as she is, for having the only truly healthy response to the life she was tossed into.

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“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”

— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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I'm going to finally read Anne Brontë.

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Anne Brontë ― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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I wouldn’t know how to hold a brush.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)

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My little morning spread! Still visiting home so am trying to take full advantage of the amount of food my mother has in her house hehe. 

Still writing papers, feeling like that is all I do now! I am getting kicked in the butt by my epistemology paper on phenomenal concepts…and I cannot wait to be done and over with it :|

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(1996)

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Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë

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ooof I really want to reread this soon

the three weeks dedicated to the Brontë sisters are over and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has exceeded my expectations

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13.08.20 / i’ve had this idea of starting a ‘classic literature journal’ for the longest time and i finally had time to start it today. this one is on agnes grey. anne is my favorite brontë sister! anyway, i hope august has been kind to you. we’re nearing the halfway point!! hang in there ♡

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14.08.20 / i told you my favorite brontë sister is anne lol. i continued working on my classic literature journal today after i completed revising two art history chapters. my plants say hi. happy friday ♡

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Agnes Grey, Chapter 7

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To Walk Invisible (2016) | dir. Sally Wainwright

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë