That year, both Anne’s brother Branwell and her sister Emily died of tuberculosis. She published Agnes Grey in 1847 and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848.
In 1846, along with Charlotte and Emily, she published Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. She worked as a governess with the Inghamįamily (1839–40) and with the Robinson family (1840–45).
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. 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. That April, the Brontës moved to Haworth, a village on the edge of the moors, where Anne’s father had become the curate.
Read more DetailsĪnne Brontë was born at Thornton in Yorkshire on 17 January 1820, the youngest of six children. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë's first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society. But Agnes's enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. Anne Brontë's first novel is the compelling autobiographical tale of a young woman desperately seeking a place in the world
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