The youngest of the illustrious Bront¿iblings Anne (1820-1849) wrote poetry and fiction
throughout her childhood and went on to become a governess religious lyric poet and novelist
publishing under the pseudonym Acton Bell. The realist and often ironic tone of her novels
Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is strikingly different from the more romantic style
of her sisters Charlotte and Emily. Anne died of pulmonary tuberculosis a year after the
publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall at only twenty-nine years old.
