All four children wrote their stories together at first, 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 fictional world, Gondal. Emily and Anne were very close, though Anne was much gentler and less hot tempered and emotional than her sister.
Charlotte and Branwell continued with the world of Angria, where Branwell wrote militaristic stories and Charlotte began to write romances and love stories. Anne and Emily created a world where women were more powerful.. and when Emily wrote her one novel it was one where the women characters were passionate and dominant. Anne moved into the social realm.
Emily spent a short 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. Although she was much less powerful a character than Emily she had a quiet strength and determination that made her keep on with difficult and distasteful tasks. She took her first job as governess at the age of 19…
Emily and she seem so very different that it is strange 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 heart, a gentle nature, and a strong moral sense 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 and foolish and their parents let them do as they pleased. 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....
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