On this day in 1849 Anne Brontë died of tuberculosis, at age twenty-nine. This was the third death in eight months among the Brontë siblings, Emily's and Branwell's coming earlier. A total of six Brontë children were born in a six-year period, 1814-1820: the two eldest died of tuberculosis at age eleven and ten, and within six weeks of each other; the three youngest died of the same disease (along with alcohol and opium, in Branwell's case), all three in their late twenties or early thirties; Charlotte would die six years later, age thirty-nine, during the last stages of pregnancy and from an unclear cause ... FULL STORY »
