“Let it not be imagined, however, that I consider myself competent to reform the errors and abuses of society, but only that I would fain contribute my humble quota towards so good an aim, and if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense.”

- Anne Brontë. 1848. Preface to the Second Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.