Historical person
Anne Brontë
1820–1849
Anne Brontë was the youngest of the Brontë siblings to survive infancy. She worked for several years as a governess, experience that informed her first novel, Agnes Grey, and she shared with Emily the imaginary world of Gondal and a lifelong practice of writing poetry.
Her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, appeared in 1848 under the name Acton Bell and confronted alcoholism, marital cruelty and a woman’s attempt to build an independent life. Anne died of tuberculosis in Scarborough in 1849.
In Juliet Barker’s The Brontës, Juliet Barker’s collective biography follows Patrick Brontë and his children from their Yorkshire childhoods through the extraordinary literary careers of Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
Non Fiction
Non Fiction featuring Anne Brontë (1 book)
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