Anne Bronte

1820 - 1849

youngest of the Brontë sisters, the subject matter of her work was influenced by brother Branwell, a drug and alcohol addict.

Anne, the youngest and most reserved of the Bront? sisters, was only a year old when her mother died. She was subsequently educated at home. Like her sisters, she also became a governess which was successful for her until the arrival of her brother Branwell as a tutor with the same family. Anne felt complelled to assist Branwell's effots for literary sucess but this had an unfortunate influence on her own literary progress. Her novel, The Tenent of Windfell Hall appears to be reflective of Branwell's acoholism and drug addition. This subject matter created a disturbance and was considered to unsavoury for a woman writer. Anne's novels and poems have been more favuorably reviewed in recent years.


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