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 | | | Portrait of Anne Bronte by Patrick Branwell Bronte (1835). |
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| 5/28/1849 |
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The Death of Anne Bronte
On this day in 1849 Anne Bronte died of tuberculosis, the third death in eight months among the Bronte siblings. The standard view of Anne is that she had less talent than her sisters, and was cut from a plainer cloth: Charlotte was dominant and ambitious, Emily was odd and reclusive, Anne was meek and churchy. More recent biographers have challenged this group portrait. |
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Online Books Page
Find electronic texts including Agnes Grey, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. A biography offering commentary and analysis is also provided:
"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was an immediate success. It is easy today to underestimate the extent to which it was a challenge to existing social and legal structures. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen Huntingdon's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. Anne's heroine eventually leaves her husband to protect their young son from his influence. She supports herself and her son by painting, while living in hiding, fearful of discovery. In doing so, she violates not only social conventions, but English law. At the time, a married woman had no independent legal existence, apart from her husband. She could not own her own property, sue for divorce, or control custody of her children. If she attempted to live apart from him, her husband had the right to reclaim her. If she took their child with her, she was liable for kidnapping. In living off her own earnings, she was held to be stealing her husband's property, since any income she made was legally his." |  | The Bronte Sisters
A selection of links to Bronte resources on the Internet, including electronic texts and a variety of literary analysis of theme, symbolism and imagery, spiritualism, religion, and literary concordances (e.g., a comparison between Jane Eyre and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). | |
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