Anne Bradford is Colonel Bradford’s wife. She is timid and cowed by her husband. After the plague has subsided and the Bradford have returned to Eyam, Anne successfully gives birth to a child when Anna intervenes at a critical moment and saves both Anne and the baby. Because the child is the product of an affair and not actually the Colonel’s, its life is in danger as long as it stays in Eyam. So Anna offers to adopt Anne’s child and take it far away. Anne says she would have loved the child if allowed to, and allows Anna to take it.
Anne Bradford Quotes in Year of Wonders
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Part 3: Apple-Picking Time
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Why, I wondered, had the surgeon abandoned this case as hopeless? Had he persevered here he could easily have done what I was about to attempt. It came to me then that he must have arrived under instruction to be negligent.
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Anne Bradford Quotes in Year of Wonders
The Year of Wonders quotes below are all either spoken by Anne Bradford or refer to Anne Bradford. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 3: Apple-Picking Time
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Why, I wondered, had the surgeon abandoned this case as hopeless? Had he persevered here he could easily have done what I was about to attempt. It came to me then that he must have arrived under instruction to be negligent.
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