She held two positions as governess, with the Inghams at Blake Hall and, from 1840-45, with the Robinson family at Thorp Green. She was educated at home and, as a child, she invented with her sister Emily the imaginary world of Gondal, for which she wrote copious chronicles and poems. She died inĪnne Bronte, who was born in 1820, was brought up in the Yorkshire village of Haworth where her father was curate. A fortnight later, Anne was diagnosed with the same disease. That year, both Anne’s brother Branwell and her sister Emily died of tuberculosis. She published Agnes Grey in 1847 and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. In 1846, along with Charlotte and Emily, she published Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
She worked as a governess with the Inghamįamily (1839–40) and with the Robinson family (1840–45). After that, Anne, Charlotte, Emily and Branwell were taught at home for a few years, and together, they created vivid fantasy worlds which they explored in their writing. She was four when her older sisters were sent to the Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge, where Maria and Elizabeth both caught tuberculosis and died. That April, the Brontës moved to Haworth, a village on the edge of the moors, where Anne’s father had become the curate. Read moreĪnne Bronte was born at Thornton in Yorkshire on 17 January 1820, the youngest of six children. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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