The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte - A mysterious woman arrives in a provincial village (somewhere in spooky, foggy Yorkshire, England) under a pseudonym (Helen Graham) along with her young son, but is reluctant to disclose anything about her torrid past - despite persistent attempts made by the other villagers, until she finally, somewhat surprisingly (?) decides to confide in one trustworthy male. There's more of a plot in that one sentence, perhaps, than in many dense pages of contemporary fiction.  So goes the final novel of Anne Bronte. But can someone explain this to me: how does it happen that a family made up in part of three devoted sisters and a wayward brother, can endure the death of their mother at an early age, along with the loss of two other siblings to tuberculosis, and then continue on, despite a haphazard smattering of "formal education," to produce three of the most amazing novels in all of English literature penned by amazing prose stylists who will all die of tuberculosis or other ailments before reaching the age of 40? That sort of windfall just doesn't happen everyday. How did it happen in the case of the Bronte sisters??? I want to know!