Reading the Classics #25: Anne Bronte
I don't know if anyone noticed, but in the series, I haven't written about a woman author since post #12 with Mary Shelley. This was not on purpose; it was just the flow of my posts. But in a way, I'm about to fix that. Anne Bronte (1820-1849) was not the only writer in her family. Her 2 sisters, Charlotte and Emily, also wrote some novels. So this post will be on Anne, the next one will be on Charlotte, and then I'll do Emily. But let's get started.
1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
2. Agnes Grey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is considered to be an early Feminist work, and although I can see it in that way, my personal opinion is that it wasn't written with that purpose. Anyway, it's about a girl who struggles with her abusive husband, and her attempts to break free from him. I enjoyed it, but it is a longer book than the average novel.
Agnes Grey is about a governess who stays with different families and gets involved in different situations. There were some politics and social opinions in it as well. It was good, I have nothing to say against it, I just didn't enjoy it as much as the former book. Also, this book wasn't that long; about 150 pages.
I'm sorry I don't have much to say. I like Anne Bronte's works, but I just don't need to say very much about them. I hope that was, if not enjoyable, then at least informative. I will keep the timeline for the present, since you guys seem to like it.
19 B.C.- Aeneid
1590-1592- The Taming of the Shrew
1592-1594- The Comedy of Errors
1593- Titus Andronicus, Richard III
1595- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II
1595-1596- Romeo and Juliet
1596-1599- The Merchant of Venice
1598- Love's Labor's Lost, Henry IV Part 1
1598-1599- Much Ado About Nothing
1599- Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V
Early 17th Century- Hamlet
1600- Twelfth Night
1602- Othello
1603- King Lear, Macbeth
1610-1611- The Tempest
1630-1651- Of Plymouth Plantation
1667- Paradise Lost
1671- Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes
1726- Gulliver's Travels
1729- A Modest Proposal
1811- Sense and Sensibility
1813- Pride and Prejudice
1814- Mansfield Park
1815- Emma
1817- Sanditon
1818- Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Frankenstein
1819- Rip van Winkle
1820- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1836-1837- The Pickwick Papers
1837- Oliver Twist
1839- The Fall of the House of Usher, Nicholas Nickleby
1842- The Masque of the Red Death, Dead Souls
1842-1843- The Pit and the Pendulum
1843- A Christmas Carol, The Tell-Tale Heart
1844- The Chimes, The Three Musketeers
1844-1845- The Purloined Letter
1845- The Raven, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Count of Monte Cristo
1847- The Man in the Iron Mask, Agnes Grey
1848- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1849-David Copperfield, Annabel Lee
1853- Bleak House
1854- Hard Times
1855- Little Dorrit
1859- A Tale of Two Cities
1864- Great Expectations
1887- A Study in Scarlet
1890- The Sign of Four
1891- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Picture of Dorian Grey
1892- The Adventure of the Speckled Band
1893- Mrs. Warren's Profession
1894- Candida, Salome
1895- The Importance of Being Earnest
1896- The Devil's Disciple
1897- Dracula
1898- Youth
1899- Heart of Darkness
1900- Lord Jim
1901-1902- Man and Superman
1902- The Hound of the Baskervilles
1904- Peter Pan
1905- The Scarlet Pimpernel
1906- Sir Nigel
1907- The Secret Agent
1910- The Phantom of the Opera
1912- Pygmalion
1914- Dracula's Guest, The Burial of the Rats
1927- Men Without Women
1929- A Farewell to Arms
1940- For Whom the Bell Tolls
1945- Animal Farm
1949- 1984
1950- I, Robot, Pebble in the Sky
1952- The Old Man and the Sea
1957- The Cat in the Hat
