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 descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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 |
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 |
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 | 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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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