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Anne Brontë
1820–1849
Best known for Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, this quietly radical Victorian writer brought unusual moral clarity and emotional honesty to stories about women’s lives. Though she died at just 29, her work has endured for its realism, courage, and steady independence.
3 Audiobooks
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
by Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë
About the author
Born on January 17, 1820, in Thornton, Yorkshire, Anne Brontë was the youngest of the Brontë siblings and grew up at Haworth Parsonage in a family that would become central to English literature. She wrote poetry as well as fiction, and published with her sisters Charlotte and Emily under the pseudonym Acton Bell.
Her first novel, Agnes Grey (1847), drew on her experience working as a governess. She followed it with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), a bold and unusually direct novel that challenged Victorian ideas about marriage, morality, and a woman’s right to independence. Readers now often see it as one of the most strikingly modern works of its time.
Anne Brontë died on May 28, 1849, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, at the age of 29. For many years she was overshadowed by her sisters, but her reputation has grown steadily, and she is now valued as a distinctive novelist and poet whose work combines restraint, compassion, and moral strength.