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soph_sol t1_jeaowy1 wrote

I'm with you on disliking Wuthering Heights, though I think for different reasons than you! I wasn't too confused by it, and in fact found the way it was writing to be extremely compelling, but I hated the story it was telling so much that I gave up on it by halfway through despite how much I admired the writing.

I've read both of Anne's books, and thought that The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was very well done, but her first book, Agnes Grey, I found to be fairly dull. I wish she'd had the chance to live longer and write more, if she was able to improve so much just between her first book and her second.

For Charlotte, I've only read Jane Eyre, and I have conflicted feelings about it to be honest. I love Jane herself, and what the narrative is doing with her, and notions of a woman's independence and freedom in the era. But I hate hate hate Mr Rochester so it's hard for me to be happy with how the story ends! (admittedly I hate St John even more....)

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