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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 153-68.
156-7
She officially adopted authorship as her profession...
Textual Production May Sinclair
The first of MS 's introductions to the Everyman's Library reprints of the BrontëAnne BrontëEmily Brontë sisters' novels, the one to Wuthering Heights, was published.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Textual Production May Sinclair
MS published The Three Brontës, a critical and interpretive essay assessing Charlotte , Anne , and Emily as people and as artists.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Spark
She took her text from the multi-volume Wise and Symington edition. The year before this, in a time of many uncompleted projects, she began on but did not finish a life of Anne Brontë ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text A. Mary F. Robinson
It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection.
McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. ix - xv.
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Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...
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.
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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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