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Anne Brontë
1820–1849 · English
About the author
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) was the youngest of the three Brontë sisters, all of whom achieved literary fame. She worked as a governess, an experience that informed her first novel, Agnes Grey (1847), a stark portrayal of the isolation and powerlessness of a governess. Her second and more radical novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), challenged Victorian conventions by depicting a woman leaving her abusive husband and advocating for her independence. The novel’s frank treatment of alcoholism and marital cruelty shocked contemporary readers. Anne’s poetry, collected with her sisters’ in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), also displays her characteristic moral seriousness. Her literary legacy, long overshadowed by her sisters Charlotte and Emily, has been reassessed by modern critics who praise her unflinching realism and proto-feminist themes. She died of tuberculosis at age 29.
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