Anne Brontë

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Standard Name: Brontë, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Brontë
Pseudonym: Acton Bell
Used Form: Anne Bronte
The youngest of the famous Brontë sisters, AB has had the slightest reputation among the three for her output of poetry and two novels. Recently, however, her fiction's importance and influence has begun to be recognized, particularly for its incisive and detailed portrayal of the oppression of middle-class Victorian women.
Detail from the long lost, now well-known, painting of Anne Brontë and her sisters by their brother Branwell, c. 1834. She is shown from the shoulders up, at a three-quarter turn, wearing a blue dress. Her loose blonde curls fall around her face. The picture retains the crease marks from its years folded on top of a wardrobe. National Portrait Gallery

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Reception Jean Plaidy
In 1991, JP said of Mistress of Mellyn: This was the sort of book that I loved to write, because I had read so much of the BrontësCharlotte BrontëAnne Brontë , over and over again, and...
Publishing Muriel Spark
Spark's first Brontë project was a group biography of the whole family, including the parents. In June 1949 she felt like a pregnant tigress with this work. It was to be published by Lindsay Drummond
Publishing Emily Brontë
Anne and EB arranged with Thomas Newby to publish Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights; they had to pay him £50 towards costs.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Author summary Phyllis Bentley
Phyllis Bentley was a prolific and successful novelist, literary critic, short-story writer, children's writer, and journalist, who was productive over a broad span of the twentieth century. Almost all her twenty-eight novels and numerous short...
Performance of text Clemence Dane
CD 's Wild Decembers, based on the lives of the BrontëEmily BrontëAnne BrontëBranwell Brontë family, had its first performance, at the Apollo Theatre , London.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
10: 133
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press.
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Performance of text Elizabeth Goudge
The first of EG 's plays to be professionally staged, TheBrontësofHaworth, opened at the Charta Theatre in London.
“Elizabeth Goudge Books”. Anglophile Books: British women authors.
Occupation Sydney Thompson Dobell
While best remembered for writing spasmodic poetry, STD also worked as a reviewer. In the Palladium and the Athenæum he gave positive reviews to works by Anne , Emily , and Charlotte Brontë .
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
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Occupation Charlotte Brontë
Patrick Brontë opened a National Church Sunday School at Haworth, to which Emily , and Anne , and CB contributed by teaching.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
183
Literary Setting Olive Schreiner
Cherry Clayton believes the novel's fictional English setting, Greenwood, was influenced by the English landscapes in the works of Hardy , George Eliot , and the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë . Schreiner herself had not yet been to...
Literary responses Marjorie Bowen
Although MB was commended for the accuracy of her historical settings in her crime novels, Mary Jean deMarr points out that she was also faulted for unbelievable reversals and obstrusive symbolism. However, deMarr finds her...
Literary responses Hannah Lynch
Blackwood's Magazine introduced the serialization of this book with a half-promise of its being a clef: It is, we believe, the faithful narrative of an actual experience, the work of a powerful writer whose identity...
Leisure and Society Emily Brontë
During childhood and early adulthood the Brontë siblings produced elaborate fantasy worlds, which they acted out as plays, in part with toy figures. These worlds came to have individualized personae, geographies, and histories, which...
Intertextuality and Influence May Sinclair
MS 's The Three Sisters appeared: a psychological/psychoanalytical novel which, although the sisters in question are not the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë , seems to take its setting from that of their lives.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
108, 225-6
Intertextuality and Influence Edith Mary Moore
The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood).
Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co.
prelims
The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Taylor
ET turned the circumstances of her own life to good account in this fiction. Her heroine, Julia Davenant, is married to an RAF officer, has a baby son, and is living in the absent Mrs...

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