A fantastically inspirational memoir that makes you want to reread far too many books' Observer 'Not so much self-help as shelf-help. Praise for How To Be A Heroine 'Any woman with a remotely bookish childhood will find great pleasure in How to be a Heroine ' Sunday Times 'Genius.
A brave, strongly feminist writer well ahead of her time - and her more celebrated siblings - and who has much to teach us today about how to find our way in the world. Take Courage is Samantha's personal, poignant and surprising journey into the life and work of a woman sidelined by history.
Until, that is, she started questioning that devotion and, in looking more closely at Emily and Charlotte, found herself confronted by Anne instead. Or that's what Samantha Ellis, a life-long Emily and Wuthering Heights devotee, had always thought. The less talented Brontë, the other Brontë. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. 'I was wowed and moved' Tracy Chevalier Anne Brontë is the forgotten Brontë sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell.
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