Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë was born on 17 January 1820, the last of six children to an Irish clergyman and a Cornish merchant's daughter. Her mother died when she was one, her two eldest sisters when she was four. She grew up in her father's parsonage in Haworth, Yorkshire, and spent years working as a governess between 1839 and 1845. In 1846, she and her sisters Charlotte and Emily published a book of poetry under the pseudonyms Acton, Currer, and Ellis Bell. Her first novel, Agnes Grey, appeared in 1847 alongside Emily's Wuthering Heights. The following year she published The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, now considered one of the first feminist novels. She died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 28 May 1849, aged 29. Charlotte later blocked republication of Wildfell Hall, calling it "a mistake" - a decision that kept Anne in the shadows for decades. Both novels are now classics.