Brontë, Anne

17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849

Little sister of Charlotte and Emily who, like Emily, died at an early age. Her Agnes Grey [Project Gutenberg (392K)] is a poignant examination of the sometimes grim realities of life as a governess; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, with its wonderfully Gothic title, owes (as do many of the works of the sisters Brontë) a debt to the Gothic, particularly in its sense of mystery and its portrayals of an aristocratic life of decadence and emotional brutality.		 click for more info from amazon.com
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Sites:
Anne Brontë - The Scarborough Connection
Although nominally about the link between AB and her beloved town of Scarborough, this site is quite extensive in its coverage; arguably it's the best Anne Brontë site in existence. It features a substantial biography, a chronology, contemporary reviews and other materials pertinent to AB, etexts of her poems discussions of her famous family, overviews of her 2 novels, and links to other AB resources. Highly recommended. [Michael Armitage]
Anne Brontë biography
Includes some poetic etexts and a brief bibliography. [Celebration of Women Writers]
Anne Brontë overview
Still incomplete, this site currently features prinarily contextual info and some discussions of the novels. [Victorian Web]
Biographical note
[Susan Bauman, U Regina; Literary Encyclopedia]
Charlotte Brontë's Notes on the Pseudonyms Used By Herself and Her Sisters, Emily and Anne Brontë (38K)
[Project Gutenberg]
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Includes a lot of good biographical and contextual information about the Brontë family, a customizable,chronology, and useful brief discussions of the Brontë's various novels. Recommended.
Biographical note
[The Authors Calendar]
Brief biographical note on the Brontë sisters a LitGothic etext
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
The Brontë Sisters Web
[Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya U]
The Brontë Sisters
[Cecilia Falk]
Biographical note on the Brontë family
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby.com]
Brontë Hyper-Concordance
Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts by the Brontë sisters, including Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Brontë Country
A tourist site, but well worth the visit for photos and info about the Brontë family and the land (and house) where they grew up.
Portrait of the 3 sisters Brontë by the brother Brontë  
[National Portrait Gallery, London]


Etexts:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë's classic 1848 tale of domestic abuse and exploitation set within a larger tale of love and mystery in the remote English countryside.
- at Literature.org   Table of Contents
- at MasterTexts   Table of Contents
- at Project Gutenberg (948K)
"The Mutilated Texts of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"
Discussion of the textual history of Tenant; part of the Ann Brontë site listed above. [Michael Armitage]
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Essays:
"Feminism and the Public Sphere in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"
by Rachel K. Carnell (abstract)  [C19 Lit]


Discussion:
BRONTE.
Discussion list covering Emily, Charlotte, Anne, and even Branwell, the first family of post-Romantic post-Gothic Gothic: majordomo@world.std.com


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