Talented as she was, Anne Brontë has always been overshadowed by her older siblings: virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily, and dissolute Branwell. Recalled as tragic, virginal, sweet, and selfless, Anne was also a brave, strongly feminist writer well ahead of her time, argues Samantha Ellis, who builds a case that the forgotten Brontë has much to teach us today about how to find our way in the world.