Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë (1820–1849) was an English novelist and poet and the youngest of the Brontë sisters. She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, and grew up in Haworth, where her father, Patrick Brontë, was curate. Brontë worked as a governess, experiences that informed her first novel, *Agnes Grey* (1847). In 1848 she published *The Tenant of Wildfell Hall*, a bold, realist novel that challenged contemporary attitudes to marriage, alcoholism, and women’s legal and moral autonomy. She also wrote poetry, first appearing in the sisters’ 1846 collection under the pseudonym Acton Bell. She died in Scarborough in 1849.