Let us return to this study’s introductory statement—in short, that Anne Brontë was not influenced by Lord Byron. This assertion is based on over a century and a half of intense study into the Brontë family, their novels, poetry and juvenilia by countless scholars. Due to the existence of only a small number of primary sources detailing the lives and characters of Anne and Emily, Charlotte Brontë’s conversations with Elizabeth Gaskell, her ‘Biographical Notice’ and ‘Selections from the Literary Remains of Ellis and Acton Bell’ have become canonical lore. Under the eldest sister’s curation, Emily’s work became heavily associated with Lord Byron in its passion and savagery, and Anne’s with the religious melancholy and didacticism of William Cowper.