Автор: Acton Bell

Anne Bronte, who was born in 1820, was brought up in the Yorkshire village of Haworth where her father was curate. She was educated at home and, as a child, she invented with her sister Emily the imaginary world of Gondal, fo which she wrote copious chronicles and poems. She held two positions as governess, with the Ginghams at Black Hall and, from 1840-45, with the Robinson family at Thorp Green. As a religious lyric poet, Anne Bronte”s hymns and lyrics rang with this of Cowper. Her first novel Agney Grey (1847), published under the pseudonym Acton Bell, is in the tradition of fictional spiritual autobiography, written with conciseness, integrity and irony. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) is a powerful feminist testament, attacking marriage laws, double standard of sexual morality and the education of men and women. Anne Bronte died at Scarborough in 1849. She was the youngest of the Bronte sisters, who extraordinary gifts are only now receiving just appraisal.