biography
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Brontë, Anne
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pseudonym Acton Bell
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pronunciation:
[brontee]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1820–49)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Thornton, West Yorkshire. She went as governess to the Inghams at Blake Hall in 1839 and to the Robinsons at Thorpe Green (1841–5), a post she had to leave because of her brother's Branwell's unfortunate love for Mrs Robinson. She shared in the publication, under pseudonyms, of the three sisters' Poems (1846). Her two novels, Agnes Grey (1848) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), were unsuccessful at the time. |
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