Charlotte Brontė, with all her splendid gift for prose, stumbled and fell with that clumsy weapon in her hands. George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description. Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it. Thus, with less genius for writing than Charlotte Brontė, she got infinitely more said.
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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929), Chapter 4Jane Austen
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life,and it ought not to be.Southey's famous reply to Charlotte Bronte
Robert Southey
Write poetry for its own sake;not in the spirit of emulation,and not with a view to celebrity;the less you aim at that the more likely you will be to deserve and finally obtain it.Southey's advice to Charlotte Bronte.
Robert Southey
Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from truth, were burst by the Brontės or elaborately untied by George Eliot. Yet the fact remains that Jane Austen knew more about men than either of them. Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her.
Jane Austen
One of the main things that brings people to the Brontė Museum from all over the world is Kate Bush. We have copies of her No 1 hit single " Wuthering Heights" in our collection of Brontė-related items. People often arrive at the Brontė novels through that song.
Kate Bush
Whatever 'Bloomsbury' may think of Jane Austen, she is not by any means one of my favourites. I'd give all she ever wrote for half what the [[w:Brontė family|Brontės] wrote -- if my reason did not compel me to see that she is a magnificent artist. What I shall proceed to find out, from her letters, when I've time, is why she failed to be much better than she was. Something to do with sex, I expect; the letters are full of hints already that she suppressed half of her in her novels.
Jane Austen
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