The two novels by Anne Bronte in one beautiful volume. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte was born at Thornton in Yorkshire on 17 January 1820,
the youngest of six children. That April, the Brontes moved to
Haworth, a village on the edge of the moors, where Anne's father
had become the curate. Anne's mother died soon afterwards. She was
four when her older sisters were sent to the Clergy Daughters'
School at Cowan Bridge, where Maria and Elizabeth both caught
tuberculosis and died. After that, Anne, Charlotte, Emily and
Branwell were taught at home for a few years, and together, they
created vivid fantasy worlds which they explored in their writing.
Anne went to Roe Head School 1835-7. She worked as a governess with
the Ingham
family (1839-40) and with the Robinson family (1840-45). In 1846,
along with Charlotte and Emily, she published Poems by Currer,
Ellis and Acton Bell. She published Agnes Grey in 1847 and The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. That year, both Anne's brother
Branwell and her sister Emily died of tuberculosis. A fortnight
later, Anne was diagnosed with the same disease. She died in
Scarborough on 28 May 1849.
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