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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Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | Each chapter is given a title and an epigraph, among which lines from women writers (Jean Ingelow
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Adelaide Anne Procter
, Anne Brontë
, Helen Marion Burnside
) are... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emma Frances Brooke | It appears that EFB
had at least two sisters, and that they may have both been writers. An article written after EFB revealed her authorship of A Superfluous Woman quotes her still undiscovered biographer: There... |
Textual Production | Emma Frances Brooke | It seems that EFB
began writing seriously for financial reasons after her sudden loss of fortune and her move south to Hampstead in London in 1879. Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press. 163 Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 2, pp. 153-68. 156-7 |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
returned to Filey, near Scarborough, to try to improve her health and to visit Anne
's grave. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 696-9 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë | |
Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | Emily
, Anne
, and CB
published a collection, Poems, under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The pseudonym of Currer Bell may have been based on the name of Miss Currer
of... |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | Charlotte Brontë
discovered a book of EB
's manuscript poetry and was convinced that she should publish it; this led to their first, joint publication (with Anne
) of their Poems. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 478-9 |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | The publishers
of Jane Eyre bought up the remaining copies of Poems by Currer
, Ellis
, and Acton
Bell and reissued it. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 9, 64 |
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. 525 |
Textual Production | Emily Brontë | EB
's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë
's Agnes Grey reappeared in a cheap, single volume with a heavily edited and annotated selection of poems and a biographical preface by Charlotte Brontë
. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 654-6 Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Wuthering Heights</span>; Extract from the Prefatory Note to ’Selections from Poems by Ellis Bell’”. Wuthering Heights, edited by Professor Ian Jack and Professor Ian Jack, Oxford University Press, pp. 359 - 65; 365. 365 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Brontë | |
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... |
Travel | Emily Brontë | From this time EB
stayed close to home, apart from a brief trip that she and Anne
made to York in June 1845. During the journey she and Anne pretended they were Royalist prisoners fleeing... |
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