Editing Anne Brontë (section)

==Reputation==
After Anne's death, Charlotte addressed issues with the first edition of ''Agnes Grey'' for its republication, but she prevented republication of ''The Tenant of Wildfell Hall''.<ref name=" Fraser 387">Fraser, ''The Brontës'', p. 387</ref> In 1850, Charlotte wrote that {{blockquote|''Wildfell Hall'' it hardly appears to me desirable to preserve. The choice of subject in that work is a mistake, it was too little consonant with the character, tastes and ideas of the gentle, retiring inexperienced writer.<ref name="Barker 654">Barker, ''The Brontës'', p. 654</ref>}} Subsequent critics paid less attention to Anne's work and some dismissed her as "a Brontë without genius".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lane|first1=Margaret|title=The Brontë Story|url=https://archive.org/details/brontstoryrecons0000lane|url-access=registration}}</ref>

But since the mid-20th century her life and works have been given better attention. Biographies by [[Winifred Gérin]] (1959), Elizabeth Langland (1989) and Edward Chitham (1991), as well as Juliet Barker's group biography, ''The Brontës'' (1994; revised edition 2000), and work by critics such as [[Inga-Stina Ewbank]], Marianne Thormählen, Laura C Berry, Jan B Gordon, Mary Summers, and Juliet McMaster has led to acceptance of Anne Brontë as a major literary figure.<ref name="Ann"/><ref name="Harrison and Stanford 243—245">Harrison and Stanford, ''Anne Brontë — Her Life and Work'', стр. 243—245</ref> Sally McDonald of the Brontë Society said in 2013 that in some ways Anne "is now viewed as the most radical of the sisters, writing about tough subjects such as women's need to maintain independence and how alcoholism can tear a family apart."<ref name="grave-1"/> In 2016 [[Lucy Mangan]] championed Anne Brontë in the BBC's ''Being the Brontës''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/23/being-the-brontes-bbc-lucy-mangan-anne-bronte|title=The forgotten genius: why Anne wins the battle of the Brontës|first=Lucy|last=Mangan|newspaper=The Guardian |date=23 March 2016|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>