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

— Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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