Born on January 17, 1820, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England,
Anne Brontë wrote a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and
Emily. She worked as a governess too. Her 1847 novel, Agnes Grey, was
inspired by her experiences. Her subsequent novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the story of a woman leaving her abusive husband, was
published the following year. Anne died of tuberculosis on May 28, 1849, in
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.
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Here you can read an interesting article about her books.
“I am satisfied that if
a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All
novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a
loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be
really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing
anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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