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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Residence | Anne Lister | |
Education | F. Tennyson Jesse | Though FTJ
did not receive much formal education, she read voraciously. Important discoveries were theBrontësisters
, Jane Austen
, and Constance Garnett
's translations of Tolstoy
. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch. 33 |
death | John Oliver Hobbes | She had left her parents' home on the Isle of Wight the day before, having spent three energetic days there, and her father later wrote that on leaving she gave no indication of illness or... |
Education | H. D. | HD's father encouraged her education, although he refused to allow her to attend art school. Instead, she was encouraged to study mathematics and was tutored by her brother Eric
. Eric also provided his sister... |
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. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Stella Gibbons | SG
's characters are amusing caricatures of socialites, intellectuals, and rustics. Flora's city friend, the modern young widow Mrs Smiling, for instance, has a large collection of suitors and an even larger collection of brassières... |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and... |
Health | Margiad Evans | As a child of about three she had terrible nightmares about people (nuns) who were running away from something, on fire and dying. She had dreadful dreams again at about seventeen, and then a recurrent... |
Textual Features | George Eliot | This story is equally remarkable for the portraits of Mr Tryan (the Evangelical clergyman who not only converts Janet to his beliefs but succeeds in sparking her will to regeneration) and of Janet herself, but... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Drabble | MD
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, also attended Cambridge
, and served in the RAF
during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour
candidate for the Tory seat... |
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. 745 |
Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | In the same year, EMD
edited the book of literary criticism, The BrontëCharlotte BrontëEmily Brontë
s: Their Lives Recorded by Their Contemporaries, published by Hogarth Press
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Zarin, Cynthia. “The Diarist: How E. M. Delafield Launched a Genre”. New Yorker, pp. 44-9. 49 |
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. 100 |
Health | Dora Carrington | Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 271-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC
as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same... |
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