British novelist and poet (1820-1849)
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The youngest Brontë wrote the quietest insurgency: a novel in which a woman leaves her husband, slams the door on Victorian propriety, and earns her own living. Her sister tried to bury it after she died.
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 c…
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I have no horror of death: if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect ...
I've done you a piece of good service, Nancy," he began: then seeing me, he acknowledged my presence by a slight bow.
While on my lonely couch I lie, I seldom feel myself alone, For fancy fills my dreaming eye With scenes and pleasures of its own.
How sweet to feel its helpless form Depending thus on me alone! And while I hold it safe and warm What bliss to think it is my own!
But then to wake and find it flown, The dream of happiness destroyed, To find myself unloved, alone, What tongue can speak the dreary void?
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