Anne Bronte

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Anne Bronte
A sketch o Bronte made bi her sister,
Charlotte Bronte , circa 1834
Born 17 Januar 1820 ( 1820-01-17 )
Thornton ,
West Riding of Yorkshire ,
Ingland
Dee'd 28 Mey 1849 (1849-05-28) (aged 29)
Scarborough ,
North Riding of Yorkshire ,
Ingland
Restin place St. Mary's Churchyard,
Scarborough, North Yorkshire ,
Ingland
Pen name Acton Bell
Thrift Poetess, novelist, governess
Leid Inglis
Naitionality Inglis
Period 1836?1849
Genre Feection, poetry
Leeterar muivement Realism
Notable warks The Tenant o Wildfell Haw
Relatives Bronte family

Anne Bronte ( / ? b r ? n t i / ; [2] [3] 17 Januar 1820 ? 28 Mey 1849) wis a Breetish novelist an poet, the youngest member o the Bronte leeterary faimily.

The dauchter o a puir Erse clergyman in the Kirk o Ingland , Anne Bronte lived maist o her life wi her faimily at the parish o Haworth on the Yorkshire muirs. For a couple o years she went tae a boardin schuil. At the age o 19 she left Haworth an wirked as a govreness atween 1839 an 1845. Efter leavin her teachin poseetion, she fulfilled her leeterar ambitions. She wrote a volume o poetry wi her sisters ( Poems bi Currer, Ellis, an Acton Bell , 1846) an twa novels. Agnes Grey , based upon her experiences as a govreness, wis published in 1847. Her seicont an last novel, The Tenant o Wildfell Haw , which is considered tae be ane o the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848. Anne's life wis cut short when she died o pulmonary tuberculosis at the age o 29.

Mainly acause the re-publication o The Tenant o Wildfell Haw wis preventit bi Charlotte Bronte efter Anne's daith, she is less kent than her sisters Charlotte , author o fower novels includin Jane Eyre , an Emily , author o Wutherin Hichts . [4] Houiver her novels, lik thae o her sisters, hae acome classics o Inglis leeteratur .

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  1. "The Novels of Anne Bronte" . Michael Armitage. Archived frae the original on 26 November 2014 . Retrieved 30 September 2012 .
  2. American Heritage and Collins dictionaries
  3. Columbia Encyclopedia
  4. "Ann Bronte Remembered in Scarborough" . www.annebronte.scarborough.co.uk. Archived frae the original on 28 Julie 2012 . Retrieved 23 August 2012 .