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Brontë, Anne (1820–1849) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)
..., Anne ( 1820–1849 ) British novelist and poet Agnes Grey ( 1847 ) Fiction The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) Fiction...
Brontë, Anne (1820–49) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
..., Anne ( 1820–49 ) English novelist and poet . The youngest of the Brontë sisters, she became a governess, an experience reflected in Agnes Grey ( 1847 ). All of her work was published under the male pseudonym Acton Bell and her best-known novel is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848...
Brontë, Anne (1820–49) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...was ‘naturally sensitive, reserved and dejected’. The novel may be read as a scathing indictment of sexual double standards enshrined in marriage law and the educational system. Anne died of tuberculosis at Scarborough, where she was buried. See The Poems of Anne Brontë , ed. E. Chitham (1979) ; E. Langland , Anne Bronte (1989) ; E. Chitham , A Life of Anne Brontë ...
Brontë, Anne (1820–49) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
..., Anne ( 1820–49 ) Novelist and poet, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë . She was educated largely at home, where, as the youngest of the motherless family, she may have fallen under the Wesleyan influence of her Aunt Branwell, who is thought to have encouraged her tendency to religious introspection. Emily and Anne invented the imaginary world of Gondal, the setting of many of their poems. Anne became a governess in 1839 ; her recollections of her experiences with the over‐indulged young children and the worldly older children of the two...
Brontë, Anne (1820–49) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
..., Anne ( ‘Acton Bell’ ) ( 1820–49 ), novelist and poet : b. Thornton ; lives at Haworth 1820–49 ; educ. Mirfield and Dewsbury ; governess at Mirfield 1839 , at Thorpe Green Hall 1841–5 ; visits London ( City : Cornhill) 1848 ; d. and is buried at Scarborough ; commemorated in London ( Westminster Abbey ) and Haworth . Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell 1846 , Agnes Grey 1847 , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1848 . • see also feature entry (233–4)...
Anne Brontë Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...Anne Brontë Anne Brontë (‘Acton Bell’, 1820–49 ) was born on 17 January 1820 at the parsonage in Market Street, Thornton , the sixth and youngest child of Revd Patrick Brontë and his wife Mrs Maria Brontë . She was baptized at Thornton on 25 March 1820 by her father's friend Revd William Morgan , with Elizabeth Firth (later Mrs Elizabeth Franks ) and Frances Outhwaite as her godmothers. By 20 April 1820 the family had moved to Haworth , where Mr Brontë had been appointed perpetual curate. After their mother's death, the Brontë children were...
poetry by Anne Brontë Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...of iambs to mark key points in her dialogue. In her best poems, Anne does not require ‘the indulgences of affection’ that the critic of the Athenaeum patronizingly bestowed upon her in July 1846 ; her work deserves and repays critical attention. Chitham ABP . Frawley, Maria , Anne Brontë (1996). Gérin, Winifred , Anne Brontë (1959). Thormählen, Marianne , The Brontës and Religion (1999). Wise, T. J. , and Symington, J. A. , The Poems of Emily Jane and Anne Brontë ...
Anne Brontë
Mrs Maria Brontë
handwriting and Brontë signatures
musical settings of Brontë poems
Anne Askew
There's little joy in life for me
Confidence
Robinson family of Thorp Green
Alexandrina Zenobia
I will not mourn thee, lovely one
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846
juvenilia of the Brontës
