Anne Bronte Part II

All four children wrote their stories based on the toy soldiers that Mr Bronte had brought for them.. Then when Anne was around 11, she and Emily broke away from the world created by the 4 of them and they developed their own world, Gondal.  Emily and Anne were very close, though Anne was much gentler and less hot tempered than her sister. Charlotte and Branwell continued to write their Angrian stories. Branwell wrote stories about battles and war, and Charlotte began to write romances and love stories. Anne and Emily created Gondal, a world where women were more prominent and powerful. When Emily wrote her one novel it was one where the women characters were passionate and dominant. Anne moved into the social realm. Emily worked for a time at Miss Woolers’, with Charlotte, and then when her health broke down, Anne replaced her at school. She did well at school academically but she did not make any friends. She had a quiet determination that made her keep on with difficult and distasteful tasks. She took her first job as governess at the age of 19. She and Emily seem so very different that it is odd that they became allies, but I believe that Emily used Anne as a model for the more "worthwhile" traits of the Linton family, in Wuthering Heights. She could see that her little sister had a good gentle nature and that these were valuable traits, even if she lacked the passionate nature that other characters had. Anne's first job as a governess did not go well. The children were spoiled. Anne could not teach them and found them impossible to deal with but she stuck the job out until dismissed, because she knew that she would have to work for a living. She showed more determination, in her quiet way, than Emily could muster...