Anne Bronte Quotes


I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it


Citations

Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. T. C. Newby, 1848.

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Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte
  • Born: January 17, 1820
  • Died: May 28, 1849
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet, Novelist, Governess

Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.