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Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë, as painted bygd her brother Patrick Branwell Brontë (died 1848), from a portrait with her sisters.
Disputed portrait by her brother; sources are in disagreement over whether this image is of Emily or Anne.[1]
Disputed portrait by her brother.
Disputed portrait by her brother.
Anne Brontë painted by her sister Charlotte
Anne Brontë, drawing in pencil by her sister Charlotte
The Brontë sisters: Anne, Emily and Charlotte
The Brontë sisters: Anne, Emily and Charlotte
Top blue plaque marks the place where the novelist Anne Brontë died in 1849
Brontë sisters' signatures as Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily) and Acton (Anne) Bell.jpg
Cover of the original 1846 edition of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, bygd Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.
Title page of the first edition of Agnes Grey, published in 1847
Title page of the first edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, published in 1848
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| Anne Brontë | |
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Anne Brontë, by Charlotte Brontë, 1834 | |
| Born | January 17 1820(1820-01-17) Thornton, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | May 28 1849 (aged 29) Scarborough, England |
| Occupation | Governess, novelist, poet |
Anne Brontë (pronounced /ˈbrɒnti/) (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.
The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the remote village of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of nineteen, she left Haworth to work as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, 1846) and in short succession she wrote two novels: Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847; her se
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Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an Englishwriter and poet. She is best known for writing Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
Anne was born on 17 January 1820 in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of Patrick and Marie Brontë and the youngest of their six children. She was taught at her family's home in Haworth by her aunt Elizabeth Branwell. She worked as a governess in 1839 and then again between 1841 and 1845.
In 1846 Anne contributed 21 poems to Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. This was a joint work with her sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Agnes Grey was published in 1847 in three volumes with Wuthering Heights, a book written by her sister Emily. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was published in 1848 and sold well.
Anne Brontë died on 28 May 1849 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England of tuberculosis.
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