Lots of Anne and Charlotte, little Emily

[mme_hardy]

In The Toast: How to tell if you are in a Brontë novel.

Your grandest ambition is to open a small school with four chairs and three well-behaved students, and to someday own a vase with a flower in it, and perhaps to have a second dress.

Comments

[dorothean]

Aw pish. The ambition of the protagonists in The Professor is to retire from working by middle age and live on a comfortable annuity. And they get it, too. I'm pretty sure that if I translated it into modern terms it would be better than any of my reasonable expectations.

[mme_hardy]

It must be twenty years since I read The Professor. Time for a reread!

[caulkhead]

Erm, what? Please, nobody should *ever* put Catherine Earnshaw in charge of a schoolroom.

[kore]

ahaha the comments devolve into a Charlotte/Emily fans slapfight, AWESOME

And then we get this: 'Love Charlotte for her prose. Adore Emily for her poetry. Admire Anne for her social conscience.' Aww!