About Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë was born in 1820, the youngest of the Brontë family. Her father was curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, and her mother died when she was 20 months old. Anne was educated at home, and then attended boarding school between 1836 and 1837. Between 1839 and 1845, Anne worked as a governess, an experience that inspired her debut novel, Agnes Grey, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. The novel followed the commercially unsuccessful Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, published in 1846 by Anne and her sisters, Charlotte and Emily. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, now considered Anne’s masterpiece and one of the first feminist novels, appeared in 1848. It was an immediate success, but following Anne’s death from tuberculosis in 1849, Charlotte suppressed subsequent printings. The novel did not appear again until 1854.