Agnes Grey

About Anne Bronte

Anne Brontë was born at Thornton in Yorkshire on 17 January 1820 the youngest of six children. That April the Brontës moved to Haworth a village on the edge of the moors where Annes father had become the curate. Annes mother died soon afterwards. She was four when her older sisters were sent to the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge where Maria and Elizabeth both caught tuberculosis and died. After that Anne Charlotte Emily and Branwell were taught at home for a few years and together they created vivid fantasy worlds which they explored in their writing. Anne went to Roe Head School 18357. She worked as a governess with the Inghamfamily (183940) and with the Robinson family (184045). In 1846 along with Charlotte and Emily she published Poems by Currer Ellis and Acton Bell. She published Agnes Grey in 1847 and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. That year both Annes brother Branwell and her sister Emily died of tuberculosis. A fortnight later Anne was diagnosed with the same disease. She died inScarborough on 28 May 1849.