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12:32 PM
In any case, that Bronte Sisters question (and the tags on it) made me realise that we don't have any questions about Anne Bronte yet. So I read some of her poems and remedied that situation, reviving @GarethRees's tag.
 
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Q: Anne Bronte's "The Penitent"

Rand al'ThorAnne Bronte's poem "The Penitent", originally published under the name Acton Bell in the book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) published jointly with her two sisters, reads as follows: I mourn with thee, and yet rejoice That thou shouldst sorrow so; With angel choir...

 
 
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Q: What is ‘the secret of Da Vinci’s drains’ in ‘Aurora Leigh’?

Gareth ReesIn book I of Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the speaker sketches the character of her father: My father was an austere Englishman, Who, after a dry life-time spent at home In college-learning, law, and parish talk, Was flooded with a passion unaware, His whole provisioned...

 
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Q: What are ancient and modern classic texts for rhetoric as worked out by Romans?

Christos HaywardIn Speak like a leader, Simon Lancaster says that lessons learned in Roman times about effective political speeches still apply, and it is scandalous that a training in rhetoric is such a rarity. He briefly touches six major lessons in effective speaking, but he does not flesh it out beyond what ...

 
 
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Q: Identify a book

MagnetoBasic plot of this book was, a teenage girl finds out she was adopted. Here are some specifics: Girl had a younger sister, who was their parents' natural born child. Younger sister's name was Martha. How the teen girl learned of the adoption was this way: Martha had just returned from.a visit ...

 

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