Anne’s later poetry, posthumously labelled pillars of witness by Brontë scholars, takes its monicker from Chapter XVII of Agnes Grey; it was not used by Anne herself to describe this period of her poetry. These poems, mainly written after 1840, are introspective, self-reflective and often conversational, revealing, as Alexandra Leach has noted ‘the inner thoughts of an early-Victorian woman struggling to find an authentic voice’. This chapter explores the development of Byronic influence in the later poetry of Anne Brontë, and its potential suppression by Charlotte’s substantial editing. In relation to the publishing history of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846), G.D. Hargreaves has commented that ‘stanzas appear in print in Anne’s poems which are not in the copy-books, and lines are omitted’. Charlotte chose poems for the collection which emphasised Anne’s religious feeling, her deep spiritual melancholy, an editorial decision she would remake in the 1850 ‘Selections from the Literary Remains of Ellis and Acton Bell’. As curator of her youngest sister’s memory, Charlotte’s influence as an editor cannot be understated.