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Brontë, Anne
Brontë, Anne (1820–49), sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, was educated largely at home, where, as the youngest of the motherless family, she may have fallen under the Wesleyan influence of her Aunt Elizabeth Branwell, who is thought to have encouraged her tendency to religious melancholy. Emily and Anne invented the imaginary world of Gondal, the setting of many of their dramatic poems. Anne became a governess in 1839 and her experiences with the over-indulged young children and the worldly older children of the two households where she was employed are vividly portrayed in Agnes Grey (1847). The novel appeared under the pseudonym Acton Bell, as did a selection of her poems, together with those of her sisters, in 1846. Her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), portrays in Arthur Huntingdon a violent drunkard clearly to some extent drawn from her brother Branwell.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Brontë, Anne." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Brontë, Anne." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BrontAnne.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Brontë, Anne." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BrontAnne.html |
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Brontë, Anne
Brontë, Anne (1820–49) English novelist and poet. The youngest of the Brontë sisters, Anne became a governess, an experience reflected in Agnes Grey (1847). Like her sisters Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë, all of Anne's work was published under a male pseudonym ( Acton Bell). Her best-known novel is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
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"Brontë, Anne." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Brontë, Anne." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-BrontAnne.html "Brontë, Anne." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-BrontAnne.html |
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