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Anne Brontë(1820-1849) British Writer.

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On January 17, 1820, Anne Brontë (aka Acton Bell, 1820-1849) was born at Thornton. She was the last of six children. Very little is known about Brontë's life. Ellen Nussey once described Anne like this:

"Anne, dear gentle Anne was quite different in appearance from the others, and she was her aunt's favourite. Her hair was a very pretty light brown, and fell on her neck in graceful curls. She had lovely violet-blue eyes, fine pencilled eyebrows and a clear almost transparent complexion. She still pursued her studies and especially her sewing, under the surveillance of her aunt. " (Chitham, A Life of Anne Brontë)

Anne wrote Agnes Grey, a novel that was first published in 1847. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was Anne Brontë's second work. These two novels combine with her poetry to make up her complete works... She died on May 28, 1849.

In her book The Brontës, Juliet Barker quotes Anne as saying,

"I have no horror of death: if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect... But I wish it would please God to spare me not only for Papa's and Charlotte's sakes, but because I long to do some good in the world before I leave it. I have many schemes in my head for future practise­humble and limited indeed but still I should not like them all to come to nothing, and myself to have lived to so little purpose. But God's will be done."