![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon finishing it, I was…underwhelmed, to say the least. Naturally, I purchased the book and completed it over the next few days. Who was this mysterious younger sister and why were we not reading her along with her siblings? Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë’s first novel, stared at me, called to me. There, I saw the authors who had been captivating me as of late and one who I was immensely curious about. My teacher taught the class about Charlotte and Emily, and we read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, but we only briefly discussed the youngest Brontë, Anne, and only in relation to her older sisters.įor Christmas that year, I received a gift card to Barnes & Noble, and one afternoon, I found myself in the store’s classics section. Though my interest in women writers began several years earlier, I now had a time period I wanted to focus on, and I wanted to start with the Brontë family. ![]() Beginning my journey into the works of authors like Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Oscar Wilde, I discovered a world of literature once unknown to me, and I wanted more. It was that year that I truly fell for the written word, specifically that of the 19th century. Unfortunately, at 17 years old, I rejected her.ĭuring my junior year of high school, I took AP Literature, a course that helped me find my purpose of sorts in life. At 17 years old, I found the literary love of my life. ![]()
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