I just finished reading Anne Bronte's novel Agnes Grey. Am wondering why are her two sisters more famous than she is? Here prose are very sensitive and the novels meets all the criterial of plot requirements. Why don't her novels receive much more critical attention? Opinions please!
She is OK, but that is about it. Her sisters over-shadow her in abundance, this is my position and it seems to be the position of the vast majority of critics too.
She doesn't possess the unearthly energy of Emily in Wuthering Heights, nor the solidarity of Charlotte, and for me, therefore, is rightly rated well below her sisters. There is no magic in neither Agnes Grey or Tenant of Wildfell Hall even if they are perfectly readable novels in their own right.
Emily was an artist of supreme power, Charlotte wrote some good novels and Anne some good sentences.
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