![]() Leaning on the desk’s writing slope (which was decadently lined in pink velvet), Anne could go on with her novel. I imagine she must have made her excuses in the evenings, and escaped the drawing room, where she had to do the boring bits of her pupils’ sewing, and often felt awkward and humiliated – excluded from the conversation because she was not considered a lady, yet not allowed to sit with the servants either, because governesses had to be something of a lady, or how could they teach their pupils to be ladies?Īnne must have stolen away to her room and pulled out her small, portable writing desk. A great and unmissable read:Īnne Brontë started writing her first novel some time between 18 while she was working as a governess for the Robinson family, at Thorp Green near York. ![]() Samantha Ellis, the author of the upcoming Anne Brontë biography Take Courage, writes in The Guardian about Anne and her legacy. ![]()
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