Anne Brontë

Born in 1820, she was the youngest of the Brontë siblings and grew up at Haworth Parsonage in Yorkshire. Alongside her sisters Charlotte and Emily, she became part of one of literature's most remarkable families, publishing at first under the pen name Acton Bell.

Her first novel, Agnes Grey (1847), drew on her experiences as a governess. She followed it with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), a bold and morally serious novel that challenged social conventions and is now often seen as one of the most striking early feminist works in English fiction.

She also wrote poetry, much of it thoughtful, restrained, and deeply felt. Anne Brontë died in 1849, but her work has endured for its clarity, courage, and sympathy for people living within narrow social limits.