This mania for scribbling wasn’t an unusual activity for literary middle- or upper-class children in nineteenth-century England (many poorer kids were working at a young age, including Charles Dickens...
We can never know if Charlotte and Ellen had a sexual relationship—there is certainly no proof that they did—and perhaps it doesn’t matter. Their correspondence attests to a fervent love that included...
Emily, now twenty-seven, and Anne, twenty-five, even pretended to be characters from their fantasyland, escaping from the palace of instruction while on a train to York at the end of June.