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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040104
Author:Mark Bostridge

Last year's countdown of that TV abomination, BBC2's The Big Read, demonstrated that the Brontes retain their place in the nation's affections. Riding in at number 10 with Jane Eyre, Charlotte was the only 19th-century novelist apart from Jane Austen to make it into the upper reaches of the poll, while Emily's Wuthering Heights followed, close on its heels, at number 12 (despite a television adaptation in 1996 of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and various reassessments, Anne Bronte continues to be relegated to the literary equivalent of the back pantry).

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