#amreadingnonfiction #thebrontemyth #booksky #charlottebronte #womenwriters "... as a woman writing in an age in w/c 'authoresse' were 'liable to be looked upon w prejudice, it was expedient to disguise herself under a male-sounding pseudonym if she was to make her work public." --Lucasta Miller

#amreadingnonfiction #thebrontemyth #booksky #sentenceoftheday Altho the father, Patrick & the brother, Branwell "have been enshrined . . . in the Madame Tussaud's of the collective psyche, they would never have bcome famous had it not been 4 the literary achievements of the women in their family."