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Anne Brontë (/ ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /; [1] 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.. Anne Brontë was the daughter of Maria (née Branwell) and Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë.It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication in England until 1854.
"To a Wreath of Snow" is a poem written by Emily Brontë in December 1837, [1] [2] the same month her sister Anne Brontë fell ill. Charlotte Brontë , their eldest sister, who had been working as a teacher, stopped working to care for Anne.
Anne Brontë "Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day" is a poem by Anne Brontë, the youngest of the three Brontë sisters. It was first published in the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846). Though it shows some signs of hasty composition the critic Winifred Gérin considered it probably Anne Brontë's finest poem.
Their stories attracted attention for their passion and originality immediately following their publication. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were accepted as masterpieces of literature after their deaths.
The genesis of Agnes Grey was attributed by Edward Chitham to the reflections on life found in Anne's diary of 31 July 1845. [4]It is likely that Anne was the first of the Brontë sisters to write a work of prose for publication, [5] although Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre were all published within the same year: 1847. [6]
A Death-Scene; A Little While; Come hither child; Remembrance; Day Dream; F. De Samara to A. G. A. Hope (ballad); How Clear She Shines; Heavy hangs the raindrop; Lines
The Brontë siblings began writing prose and poetry related to their paracosmic fantasy world in the 1820s, and in December 1827 produced a novel, Glass Town. [3] Glass Town was founded when twelve wooden soldiers were offered to Branwell Brontë by his father, Patrick Brontë, on 5 June 1826. [4]