Inspirational Quotes by Anne Bronte (English Novelist, Poet)

Anne Brontë (1820–49) was an English novelist and poet. All of her work was published under the male pseudonym Acton Bell, as did a selection of her poems, published with those of her sisters, the authors Charlotte Brontë; and Emily Brontë.

Anne was the youngest of a family of six children. Anne, along with her sisters and a brother, grew up in the genteel poverty in the desolate Yorkshire village of Haworth and had limited experience of the outside world. The early death of their mother and two older sisters drove the remaining children into an intense and private intimacy. They read Shakespeare, Milton, and Virgil, played the piano and told each other stories.

Poverty forced the Brontë sisters to leave home and make their way in the world. Charlotte and Emily worked as teachers, Anne became a governess, and brother Branwell tried to become an artist and poet. Each sister went on to transform great personal adversity into distinctive artistic visions of passionate, emotional engagement that few other authors can match.

Anne recollected her experiences about caring for the over-indulged young children of the Bloomfield family and the older children of the Murray family in Agnes Grey (1847.) Brontë portrayed the seclusion inherent in a governess’s life as a young woman trapped in an awkward halfway world between the English classes. Her best-known novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848,) portrays an aggressive, immature, but sexually attractive drunkard, not unlike her brother Branwell, who never got his act together.

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