LIFE AS MYTH

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JOURNAL

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JOURNAL 2012

The seeds of wisdom

Leaning into the answer

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SUMMER 2012

Stories to live by

Index 2012

The power of the word

The king of illuminated manuscripts

The commissions of Jean, duc de Berry

Prejudice and the pen

The awakened soul

The color of her mind

Defending the pen from the sword

A story we lived by

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LIFEWORKS

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SUMMER 2012
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THE AWAKENED SOUL

agnes grey

Old manor house, illustration for Agnes Grey. Jack Hewer. ca. 19th century.   19th Century portrait of Anne, possibly by her brother Patrick Brontë

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring.
Anne Brontë (1820-49), writer, poet, youngest of the three surviving sisters

Anne Brontë wrote under the pen name of Acton Bell. Her major works were two novels: Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Her writer's voice was both realistic and ironic, a style very dissimilar from her sisters' decidedly Romantic approach. Though her novels are not as popular as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, they are considered among the classics of English literature.

Of the three sisters who survived into adulthood, Anne was also the most intensely spiritual. She was especially close to her maternal aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, who helped shape her religious thinking. A Christian Universalist, Anne believed that all souls will eventually be saved.

Shortly after the death of her sister Emily in December of 1848, Anne contracted influenza. She never recovered fully and in May 1849, while traveling for her health, Anne died of consumption at the age of 29

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WORKS OF ANNE BRONTË
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846)
Agnes Grey (1847)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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