Anne Bronte

At 29 years old, Anne Bronte has this physical status:

Anne Bront (more commonly referred to as 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest of the Bront literary family. Anne Bront, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, spent the majority of her life with her family in Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.

Between 1836 and 1837, she attended a boarding school in Mirfield.

She left Haworth and served as a governess between 1839 and 1845.

She fulfilled her literary aspirations after leaving her teaching position.

She published a collection of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846) as well as two books.

Agnes Grey, based on her time as a governess, was first published in 1847.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, her second and final book, is considered to be one of the first feminist novels to survive in 1848.

Both her books were first published under Acton Bell's masculine pen name.

Anne's life was cut short when she died of what is now suspected of being pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29. Partly because Charlotte Bront's publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was postponed after Anne's death, she is not as well known as her sisters.

However, her books, as well as those of her sisters, have become English literature's most popular books.

Early life

Anne was the youngest of the Bront kids. She was born on the outskirts of Bradford on January 17th. Patrick, her father, was curate there. Anne was baptized on March 25, 1820. Patrick was appointed to the perpetual curacy in Haworth, a small town just seven miles (11 km) away. The family migrated to Haworth Parsonage, which was five-roomed.

Anne's mother, Maria, was only a year old when she was sick, most likely with uterine cancer. Maria Branwell died on September 15, 1821. Patrick attempted to remarry but had no success. Elizabeth Branwell (1776–1842), Maria's sister, had left the parsonage early for Maria but spent the remainder of her life raising Maria's children. She did it out of a sense of obligation. She was stern and demanded respect, not love. There was no love between her and the older children. Anne was her favorite, according to tradition.

Anne was described as precocious in Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of Charlotte. When Anne was four years old, Patrick told her what a child most desired and that she had "age and knowledge."

Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Emily were taken by Patrick in summer 1824 to Crofton, West Yorkshire, and then to the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Maria and Elizabeth Bront died of dehydration on 6 May and 15 June 1825 respectively, but Charlotte and Emily were taken home. The unexpected deaths stricken the family so much that Patrick was unable to imagine losing them away again. They were educated at home for the next five years, mainly by Elizabeth Branwell and Patrick. The children made no attempt to integrate with others outside of the parsonage and depended on each other for company. The bleak moors surrounding Haworth became their playground. Anne and her aunt, Elizabeth, stayed in a room. They were close, and Anne may have influenced Anne's personality and religious convictions.

Education

Anne's interests at home included studying both music and drawing. Anne and Emily Branwell were taught piano lessons by the Keighley church organist, while John Bradley of Keighley gave them art lessons. Each had some talent. Their aunt tried to teach the girls how to run a household, but they preferred literature over the others. They borrowed a lot from their father's abundant library. The Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Milton, Byron, Scott, essays from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and Fraser's Magazine, and miscellaneous books of history and geography and biography were among their readings.

Their reading inspired their imaginations, and their creativity soared after their father gave Branwell a set of toy soldiers in June 1826. They gave names to the soldiers, or "Tweewolves," and developed their characters. This resulted in the creation of an imaginary world called "Angria," which was illustrated with maps and watercolour renderings. The children devised plots to learn about the inhabitants of Angria and its capital city, "Glass Town," which was later identified as Verdopolis or Verdopolis.

Their epic worlds and kingdoms have gradually adopted characteristics from their ancient history, armies, juggeries, outlaws, fugitives, colleges, and publishers, with many of their sovereigns, armies, heroes, outlaws, and publishers. The children's stories and lands were published in tiny magazines and newspapers, and chronicles were impossible to read without a magnifying glass. These books and journals were an apprenticeship for their later literary talents.

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