“I’m satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.”
So wrote Anne Brontë in the preface of the second edition of her second published novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Published in 1848, this novel is widely regarded as one of the first feminist novels.
However, Anne has always been overlooked in favour of her sisters: Charlotte, author of , and Emily, author of . Anne died less than a year after the publication of , aged just 29. Sadly, she was dismissed by critics at the time as a
