More and more students in Italian universities are showing interest in a forgotten (or often underestimated) literary masterpiece of the Victorian Age, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", by Anne Bronte, the youngest of the Bronte sisters.
In order to graduate in Foreign Languages and Literatures from an Italian university, students must not only pass a certain number of written and oral exams, they must also conclude their study with a final essay (tesi di laurea) on a topic related to what they have studied.
As Rep of the Heartland West Region of the Bronte Society (American Chapters), I am very happy to discover that Anne Bronte and her masterpiece (and forerunner of feminist literature) are becoming more and more widely appreciated in Italy (my native country). It seems that now more and more young women decide to conclude their university career by paying homage to a great authoress, too often obscured by her more famous sisters.
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