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Quotation from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
“if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.”
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Author's Preface to the Second Edition (Project Gutenberg #969 (1920 John Murray edition))
Her reply to speculation about whether Acton Bell was a man or a woman.
Citation: "if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be." — Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Author's Preface to the Second Edition (Project Gutenberg #969 (1920 John Murray edition)). (id the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall-q2)
Portrait: Anne Brontë by Patrick Branwell Brontë restored, Branwell Brontë, Public domain.
