Without the Veil Between: Anne Brontë

A Fine and Subtle Spirit

Without the Veil Between catches both the triumph and the tragedy of Anne's short but quietly courageous and determined life.

This book gives us Anne. Not Anne, the "less gifted" sister of Charlotte and Emily, nor the Anne who "also wrote two novels", but Anne herself, courageous, committed, daring, and fiercely individual: a writer of remarkable insight, prescience and moral courage whose work can still astonish us today. What Denton has achieved is a portrait placed in a time very different from the jangling present, but that resonates in a way that suspends years and centuries...meticulous, poetic, luminous, and powerful.... I can't think of anyone better suited to bring us into the world of the sensitive, creative, and quietly courageous Anne.

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