Anne Bronte

Novelist and Poet

Anne Bronte (1820 – 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family.  The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne lived most of her life with her family at the remote village of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. She spent two years at a boarding school and then at the age of nineteen, left Haworth to work as a governess (1839 to 1845). After leaving this position she wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846).

She would go on to write two novels: Agnes Grey, based on her experiences as a governess, in 1847; and  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. Anne's creative life was cut short with her death of pulmonary tuberculosis when she was only twenty-nine years old. Though often overshadowed by her more famous sisters, Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights. Anne's two novels have become classics of English literature.

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