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Quotation from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
“I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path;”
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg #969 (1920 John Murray edition))
Helen's argument with Gilbert and his mother that boys and girls alike should be armed with principle rather than either sheltered in ignorance or taught by vice.
Citation: "I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path;" — Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg #969 (1920 John Murray edition)). (id the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall-q3)
Portrait: Anne Brontë by Patrick Branwell Brontë restored, Branwell Brontë, Public domain.
