Anne_Brontë

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| name = Anne Brontë
| image = AnneBronte.jpg
| caption = Anne Brontë, by Charlotte Brontë, 1834
| birth_date = {{birth date|1820|1|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Thornton, Bradford|Thornton]], [[Yorkshire]], [[England]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1849|5|28|1820|1|17|mf=y}}
| death_place = [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]], [[England]]
| occupation = [[Governess]], [[Novelist]], [[Poet]]
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| magnum_opus = [[Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]
| influences = [[John Milton]], [[Robert Burns]]
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[[Image:Annebronte.jpg|right|thumb|Anne Brontë's grave at Scarborough]]
'''Anne Brontë''' ({{pronEng|ˈbrɒntɪ}}) ([[January 17]], [[1820]] – [[May 28]], [[1849]]) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest of the [[Brontë]] literary family. She used the [[pen name]] '''Acton Bell'''.

She was born in the village of [[Thornton, Bradford|Thornton]], near [[Bradford]], [[Yorkshire]], [[England]], the last of six children. After the family moved to [[Haworth]] in [[1821]] where her father, [[Patrick Brontë]], was appointed [[vicar|perpetual curate]], Anne's mother, Maria Branwell Brontë, died of cancer. In [[1825]], her two eldest siblings, Maria and Elizabeth died of [[tuberculosis]] contracted at the Clergy Daughters' boarding school at Cowan Bridge, Lancashire. Much has been written about the influence of these deaths on Brontë and her remaining siblings as well as its possible influence on their writings.

Anne was educated at Miss Wooler's school at Roe Head, Mirfield. Between 1839 and 1845 she worked as a governess while writing in her spare time, which she had begun to do in early childhood with her two surviving sisters, [[Charlotte Brontë|Charlotte]] and [[Emily Brontë|Emily]]. Their first publication, a volume of poetry, was released under a pseudonym in [[1846]], a year after she began her first novel, ''[[Agnes Grey]]''. It was published within a month of Charlotte's novel ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' and was bound in three volumes with her sister Emily's novel ''[[Wuthering Heights]]''. Her second and last novel, ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]'' was published in [[1848]], shortly before the deaths of her brother [[Branwell Brontë|Branwell]] and her sister Emily in September and December of [[1848]] respectively.

Anne died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the [[seaside resort]] of [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]], [[England]], where she had gone to convalesce after a prolonged illness. A [[blue plaque]] on the wall of the town's ''Grand Hotel'' marks her place of death. She was buried in the town's Saint Mary's Churchyard.

Remembered as the most pious of the three Brontë sisters, Anne was a [[Christian universalism|Christian universalist]], believing that all people will eventually be saved. She discussed that belief in a December 1848 letter the Rev. David Thom.[http://www.tentmaker.org/biographies/anne-bronte.htm]

==Published works==
* ''[[Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell]]'', published [[1846]]
*''[[Agnes Grey]]'', published [[1847]]
*''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]'', published [[1848]]

==References==
* ''Anne Brontë'', [[Winifred Gérin]]
* ''A Life of Anne Brontë'', Edward Chitham
* ''The Brontës'', [[Juliet Barker]]
* '' Dark Quartet'', [[Lynne Reid Banks]]

==External links==
* [http://www.bronte.info/ Website of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth]
*[http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/personal/cs1ma/anne/bronte.html Anne Brontë – The Scarborough Connection]
*{{gutenberg author | id=Anne_Brontë | name=Anne Brontë}}
*[http://www.annebrontescarborough.co.uk/ Anne Brontë - Local to Scarborough]
* {{IBList |type=author|id=73|name=Anne Brontë}}
*[http://www.reelyredd.com/0307anne_bronte.htm Music On Christmas Morning]- Audio Poem
*[http://www.charlottebronte.it/Anne.htm Information about Anne. Italian Translation]

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|SHORT DESCRIPTION= English [[novelist]] and [[poet]]
|DATE OF BIRTH= {{birth date|1820|1|17|mf=y}}
|PLACE OF BIRTH= [[Thornton, Bradford|Thornton]], [[Yorkshire]], [[England]]
|DATE OF DEATH= {{death date|1849|5|28|mf=y}}
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[[Category:1820 births]]
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[[Category:Brontë family]]
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[[Category:English Anglicans]]
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[[Category:English women writers]]
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[[Category:Women of the Victorian era]]
[[Category:Governesses]]
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[[Category:People from Thornton and Allerton]]
[[Category:People of Irish descent in Great Britain]]
[[Category:Women poets]]
[[Category:Christian writers]]
[[Category:Christian universalists]]

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