All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.


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

Anne Brontë Quotes

All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything...

All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything...

All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything...

All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything...