The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was not qualified to handle at once vigorously and truthfully. The simple and natural – quiet description and simple pathos – are, I think Acton Bell's forte. I liked "Agnes Grey" better than the present work." Juliet Barker, in her biography of the Brontës, concluded that "Charlotte, it appears, was prepared to consign her sister’s novel to oblivion because she considered its subject at odds with her own perception of what Anne’s character was and ought to have been." Elizabeth Gaskell repeated Charlotte's words about Anne in "The Life of Charlotte Brontë", claiming that the subject of "The Tenant" "was
Culture of Yorkshire Amongst the most noted novels credited to the sisters are Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" and Emily's "Wuthering Heights". Ted Hughes wrote two collections that show his love for Yorkshire: "Remains of Elmet" (1979) and "Elmet" (1994), in which the ghost of Emily Brontë still haunts the moor. In the present day, the most prominent Yorkshire presences in English literature are the playwright, author, actor, screenwriter and commentator Alan Bennett, born 1934 in Leeds, where much of his work is set, and the poet, playwright and screenwriter Tony Harrison, born three years later in the same