Anne Bronte Quotes
I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.
Brontë, Anne. Agnes Grey. Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847.
This absurd statement was actually believed by many colonial Americans—male and female--as Addison’s Spectator was a very popular publication in Colonial America. The claim that women who are interested in political affairs and discusses them will rapidly lose her beauty had no basis in fact. None the less, the quotation was sufficient to intimidate many colonial women from discussing politics with her family or friends.
Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.