Charlotte Brontë Really, Really Didn't Seem To Like Jane Austen

Additional comment provided by Dr Michael Stewart, writer and director of the Brontë Writing Centre.

From the time the Brontë sisters first got published up until recent years, the siblings have been compared to Jane Austen. Some still get them mixed up.

And while there’s no denying that Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, and Pride and Prejudice are all classics, the writers worked decades apart. 

In fact, while Austen has been described as “very much a Regency woman” (she lived from 1775 to 1817)...