Governess

Charlotte Brontë

Literature

1816–1855

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."

Edith Cavell

Military

1865–1915

"The Heroine who humbled me": extract from the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown's book Courage Eight Portraits"

Mary Wollstonecraft

Philosophy

feminism

1759–1797

"You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on."

Anne Brontë

Literature

1820–1849

"It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man."

Emily Brontë

Literature

Romanticism

1818–1848

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."