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Anne Bronte: I would not...

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I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Ch. 3, 1848.
-- Anne Bronte, (Jan 17 1820-1849), English novelist, poet; She is best known for her novel Agnes Grey, 1947; sister of Emily and Charlotte Bronte.


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