Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest of the Brontë sisters, who published Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) under the pen name Acton Bell.

Published poems with her sisters in 1846 under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; Agnes Grey published 1847; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall published 1848; died of tuberculosis in 1849 at age 29.

The review evaluates Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey as competent but flat and at times boring, comparing her unfavorably with her sisters. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is noted as scandalous for its time but not judged a masterpiece here. The reviewer emphasizes Brontë's unrealized potential and notes her death at 29 from tuberculosis.

For:Readers of Victorian novels; students of 19th-century literature; fans of the Brontë sisters.