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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Charlotte Brontë | Anne
and CB
apparently experienced crises of faith around this time; Anne was also seriously ill. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 280-1, 284-5 |
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 | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she... |
Education | Carson McCullers | About this time she was reading voraciously: theBrontësisters
, Russian novelists and dramatists, and British and American modernists including Katherine Mansfield
and Gertrude Stein
. Isak Dinesen
was to come later. Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. Doubleday and Co. Inc., 1975. 33 Dews, Carlos L., and Carson McCullers. “Chronology and Notes”. Complete Novels, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, 2001, pp. 807 - 27. 808 |
Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her... |
Education | Jean Plaidy | Eleanor Alice Burford (later JP
) learned how to read at four years old: I do feel that books were my thing, right from the word go, she told an interviewer in 1991. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23 - 4. 23 |
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... |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
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... |
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, 1984. 33 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Brontë | |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Sigerson | She had met him through Katharine Tynan, and they became engaged in September 1895 after a long courtship. Their loving marriage lasted the rest of Dora's life. They never had children. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 240 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
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... |
Timeline
1840
Thomas Cautley Newby
established himself as a publisher in London; he earned notoriety for failing to honour contracts, especially with new writers.
10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.