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Anne Brontë [æn ˈbɹɒnteɪ] est, tout comme ses sœurs Emily Brontë et Charlotte Brontë, une femme de lettres britannique.

Elle est fortement marquée par son expérience de gouvernante, qu'elle décrit en particulier dans Agnes Grey avec un fort souci de véracité, en soulignant la lourde responsabilité des parents dans le manque de rectitude morale chez les enfants de certaines familles riches.

Son second roman, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , est marqué par la déchéance de son frère Branwell. Il raconte l’histoire d’une femme qui quitte son mari abusif et débauché, et qui doit subvenir à ses propres besoins et à ceux de son jeune fils. Il est considéré comme l’un des premiers romans féministes. Publié en juin 1848, il défie la morale qui prévaut à l’époque. Charlotte Brontë empêchera la republication de l'ouvrage pour ce motif après la mort d'Anne.

Très proche de sa sœur Emily, au point qu'on les a comparées à des jumelles, elle participe avec elle au cycle du Gondal. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. janvier 1820 – 28. mai 1849   •   Autres noms ಅನ್ನೆ ಬ್ರೊನ್, آن برونته
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“Lorsqu’on traite du vice et de caractères vicieux, je soutiens qu’il vaut mieux les peindre comme ils sont vraiment plutôt que comme ils voudraient l’être. Représenter le mal sous le jour le moins blessant, voilà sans doute la route la plus commode pour l’auteur de fiction, mais est-ce la plus honnête, ou la plus sûre? Vaut-il mieux révéler les pièges et les chausse-trapes de la vie au voyageur jeune et irréfléchi, ou les couvrir de branches et de fleurs? Ô lecteur! Si l’on s’interdisait davantage ces délicates dissimulations des réalités, ces « Paix! Paix! » chuchotés là où il n’y a pas de paix, péchés et souffrances ne toucheraient pas tant la jeunesse des deux sexes, réduite à extraire l’amère vérité de l’expérience.”

Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

“Lorsque je te conseille de ne pas te marier sans amour, cela ne veut pas dire que l'amour seul suffit… il y a bien d'autres questions à envisager. Garde ton cœur et ta main le plus longtemps possible, ne les donne pas sans réfléchir. Si tu ne trouves jamais le mari idéal, console-toi en te disant que si les joies du célibat ne sont pas nombreuses, les douleurs du moins n'en sont jamais insupportables. Il est possible que ta vie de femme mariée soit plus heureuse que ta vie de jeune fille, mais bien souvent c'est le contraire qui se produit.”

Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

“Je souhaitais dire la vérité, car la vérité exprime toujours sa propre morale à qui sait la voir. Mais, puisque l’inestimable trésor est trop souvent caché au fond du puits, il faut du courage pour s’enfoncer à sa recherche, d’autant qu’on a toute chance de récolter plus de mépris et d’opprobre à plonger dans la boue et l’eau, que de remerciements pour le joyau exhumé; de même, qui entreprend de nettoyer l’intérieur d’un célibataire négligent se verra davantage reprocher la poussière soulevée que félicité pour l’ordre qu’il instaure.”

Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

“Je suis pour moi assuré qu’un bon livre ne doit pas son excellence au sexe de son auteur. Tous les livres sont écrits — ou devraient l’être — pour être lus des hommes comme des femmes, et je ne vois pas pourquoi un homme se permettrait d’écrire ce qui serait vraiment déshonorant chez une femme, et pas davantage pourquoi l’on reprocherait à une femme d’écrire ce qui serait convenable et bienséant chez un homme.”

Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

Anne Brontë: Citations en anglais

“I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XII : A Tête-à-tête and a Discovery; Gilbert to Helen
Contexte: You couldn't have given me less encouragement, or treated me with greater severity than you did! And if you think you have wronged me by giving me your friendship, and occasionally admitting to me to the enjoyment of your company and conversation, when all hopes of close intimacy were vain — as indeed you always gave me to understand — if you think you have wronged me by this, you are mistaken; for such favours, in themselves alone, are not only delightful to my heart, but purifying, exalting, ennobling to my soul; and I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!

“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”

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Anne Brontë livre Agnes Grey

Variante: No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
Source: Agnes Grey

“The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live….”

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Anne Brontë livre Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey

“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”

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Anne Brontë

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I

“He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen to Milicent

“Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Variante: If she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. I : A Discovery; Gilbert to Rose

“If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVII : Further Warnings; Helen to Mrs. Maxwell

“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Arthur to Helen
Contexte: I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.

“But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Preface, 2nd edition (22 July 1848)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

“A sinless God, for sinful men,
Descends to suffer and to bleed;
Hell must renounce its empire then;
The price is paid, the world is freed,
And Satan's self must now confess,
That Christ has earned a Right to bless”

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Anne Brontë livre Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Music on Christmas Morning

“No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen to Ralph

“Since I love him so much, I can easily forgive him for loving himself.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur

“All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil, till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur

“There's nothing like active employment to console the afflicted.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLVII : Startling Intelligence; Eliza to Gilbert

“What can't be cured must be endured.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Arthur to Lord Lowborough

“"I almost wish I were not a painter," observed my companion.
"Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being able to imitate the various brilliant and delightful touches of nature."
"No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of them as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is more vanity and vexation of spirit."”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass; Helen to Gilbert

“I perceive the backs of young ladies' drawings, like the postscripts of their letters, are the most important and interesting part of the concern.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVIII : The Miniature; Arthur Huntingdon

“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert

“Dear Halford,
When we were together last, you gave me a very particular and interesting account of the most remarkable occurrences of your early life…”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Prologue; Gilbert Markham, in the opening line of the novel
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

“Adoration isn’t love. I adore Annabella, but I don’t love her; and I love thee, Milicent, but I don’t adore thee.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Ralph to Milicent

“If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Mrs. Markham to Helen

“Yet, should thy darkest fears be true,
If Heaven be so severe,
That such a soul as thine is lost,
Oh! how shall I appear?”

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Anne Brontë livre Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)

“I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass; Gilbert Markham

“I imagine, there must be only a very, very few men in the world that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Helen to Mrs. Maxwell

“It is deeds not words which must purchase my affection and esteem.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLVIII : Further Intelligence; Helen to Arthur

“Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIX : The Neighbour; Helen to Walter

“If you had no higher motive than the approval of your fellow mortal, it would do you little good.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen to Ralph

“Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXIII : Two Evenings; Helen to Walter

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