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