Anne Brontë – Wikipedia

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Anne Brontë painted by his sister Charlotte Brontë
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Anne Brotes (Thornton, 17 January 1820 – Scarborough, 28 May 1849) was a British writer of the Victorian age, younger sister of the most famous Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë.

Signature of Anne Bront

Anne Brontë was born in the village of Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, the last of six children. Her mother, Maria Brandell Brontë, died when Anne was just a year, on September 15, 1821, and the family moved to Haworth, where the father was vicar.

Concerned to find a new mother for his large offspring who took care of them and educated them, he sought in the following two years a new wife, without being successful. He then tried a new solution, choosing a good educational institution that was able to give them at least an adequate education. So it was that his children sent first to Crofton Hall And then al Clergy Daughter’s School .

The four sisters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Emily, were sent to these institutes, who attended from November 1824 to May 1825, when Maria died, followed the following month by Elisabeth: the two surviving sisters, Charlotte and Emily, were reported in the Paterna house.

While the four sisters were in the institute, Anne was educated in the family, where he learned music and drawing. Later, however, his training course continued before in a public school, the Roe Head School , and subsequently, after 1835, under the aegis of his sister Charlotte, which in the meantime became a teacher.

The two sisters of Anne, Charlotte and Emily, they were also authors and poets: together they constituted the trio of the Brontë sisters. Together with them, Anne published his poems; For this work the three sisters used their respective pseudonyms, for fear of the prejudices of the time towards women, despite this the collection of poems achieved equally little success, in fact only two copies were sold.

In 1847 the release of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, who was already not very successful, was blurred by the novel Wuthering Heights ( Wuthering Heights ), written by his sister Emily and published the same year. Agnes Gray tells of a housekeeper who faces several misfortunes without losing his moral principles and at the same time shows the difficulties encountered by the women of the middle class who undertake the only profession that give them respectability.

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The second novel by Anne Brutë, Wildfell Hall’s lady (original title in English: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ) It is much more intense: the story is that of Helen Graham who flees from an unhappy wedding, a wrong topic according to Charlotte, who is Anne’s literary agent. This attitude was perhaps due to the desire to protect her sister, but more likely she was linked to the fact that the “bad” character is based on the figure of their rebellious brother. The accurate descriptions of brutality and alcoholism and the deplorable language used were not appreciated by critics.

Anne died – just a few days after reaching a hospitalization on the coast of Scarborough – a location in which he had set his novels – where he should have cured the form of tuberculosis that afflicted it; Among other things, the disease had also affected the sisters. Anne was buried at Saint Mary’s Churchyard.

  • For translations of Agnes Grey See the dedicated page
  • For translations of Wildfell Hall’s lady See the dedicated page
  • Charlotte, Emily, Anne Brontë, Such a strong desire for wings , translation by Franca Gollini, Tufani, Ferrara, 1997. Selection of epistle correspondence between the Brutë sisters.
  • Anne, Charlotte, Emily Brontë, Poems , edited by Silvio Raffo, Milan, Mondadori, 2004.
  • ( IN ) Anne Brotes, Tenant of Wildfell Hall , New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, [after 1876]. URL consulted on April 1, 2015 .

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