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"Escaping the body's gaol": The poetry of Anne Bronte.(Critical Essay)

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From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20020322
Author:Leach, Alexandra

 
"She thought not of the grave, for that is but the 
body's gaol, but of all that is beyond it." 
                        Ellen Nussey (Gaskell 297) 

A well-known and still ubiquitous twentieth-century reference source dismisses Anne Bronte as "the youngest and least gifted of the celebrated Bronte sisters," and "writer of a few negligible poems" (de Ford 73). Often side-stepped by critics and underrated by Charlotte Bronte herself, Anne Bronte's work sheds light on the intriguing Bronte family, but more importantly it reveals the inner thoughts of an early Victorian woman ...

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