"that his ""preoccupation with style must have blinded him to the persistence of her moral purpose"" of Agnes Grey. Agnes Grey Agnes Grey, A Novel is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's"
"at the age of 30. ""Wuthering Heights"" was her only novel. Anne, born in Market Street Thornton on 17 January 1820, was a poet and novelist. She wrote a largely autobiographical novel entitled ""Agnes Grey"", but her second novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848), was far more ambitious. She died on 28 May 1849 in Scarborough at the age of 29. Patrick Brontë faced a challenge in arranging for the education of the girls of his family, which was barely middle class. They had no significant connections and he could not afford the fees for them to attend an"
"Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the first to know success, while Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"", Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" and other works were"
"in various animals, including humans, and Peter Brontë Gatenby, the Medical Director of the UN. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the"
"of moral transformation in virtue. ""Agnes Grey"" is also an autobiographical novel with strong parallels between its events and Anne's own life as a governess; indeed, according to Charlotte Brontë, the story of Agnes largely stemmed from Anne's own experiences as a governess. Like Agnes, ""dear, gentle"" Anne was the youngest child of a poor clergyman. In April 1839, she took up a position as a governess with the Ingham family of Blake Hall, Mirfield, in Yorkshire, about 20 miles away from Haworth, to whom the Bloomfields bear some resemblance. One of the most memorable scenes from the novel, in"
"Anne Brontë Anne Brontë (, ; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. The daughter of Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. She also attended a boarding school in Mirfield between 1836 and 1837. At 19 she left Haworth and worked as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She published a volume"
"an intensely first-person female perspective. Emily Brontë's (1818–48) novel was ""Wuthering Heights"" and, according to Juliet Gardiner, ""the vivid sexual passion and power of its language and imagery impressed, bewildered and appalled reviewers"". The third Brontë novel of 1847 was Anne Brontë's (1820–49) ""Agnes Grey"", which deals with the lonely life of a governess. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–65) was also a successful writer and ""North and South"" contrasts the lifestyle in the industrial north of England with the wealthier south. Anthony Trollope's (1815–82) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his"
"not secure a publisher, although she was heartened by an encouraging response from Smith, Elder & Co. of Cornhill, who expressed an interest in any longer works Currer Bell might wish to send. Brontë responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847. Six weeks later, ""Jane Eyre"" was published. It tells the story of a plain governess, Jane, who, after difficulties in her early life, falls in love with her employer, Mr Rochester. They marry, but only after Rochester's insane first wife, of whom Jane initially has no knowledge, dies in a dramatic house fire. The book's"
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"
"of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1848. Anne died of the same disease in May 1849. Brontë was unable to write at this time. After Anne's death Brontë resumed writing as a way of dealing with her grief, and ""Shirley"", which deals with themes of industrial unrest and the role of women in society, was published in October 1849. Unlike ""Jane Eyre"", which is written in the first person, ""Shirley"" is written in the third person and lacks the emotional immediacy of her first novel, and reviewers found it less shocking. Brontë, as her late sister's heir, suppressed the republication of"
"failed to attract pupils. Instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Her first novel ""The Professor"" was rejected by publishers, her second novel ""Jane Eyre"" was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles. Brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855 of tuberculosis or possibly typhus. Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April"
"more subdued claims admiring ""Agnes Grey"" with a less overt praise of Brontë's work than Moore. The genesis of ""Agnes Grey"" was attributed by Edward Chitham to the reflections on life found in Anne's diary of 31 July 1845. It is likely that Anne was the first of the Brontë sisters to write a work of prose for publication, although ""Agnes Grey"", ""Wuthering Heights"", and ""Jane Eyre"" were all published within the same year: 1847. Anne's novel was eventually published by Thomas Newby in a triple-volume format: Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" made up the first two volumes (by virtue of it"
"""per se"""". Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a"
"she was employed by the Sidgwick family at their summer residence, Stone Gappe, in Lothersdale, where one of her charges was John Benson Sidgwick (1835–1927), an unruly child who on one occasion threw a Bible at Charlotte, an incident that may have been the inspiration for a part of the opening chapter of ""Jane Eyre"" in which John Reed throws a book at the young Jane. Brontë did not enjoy her work as a governess, noting her employers treated her almost as a slave, constantly humiliating her. Brontë was of slight build and was less than five feet tall. In"
"wrote to the Poet Laureate Robert Southey asking him for encouragement of her career as a poet. Southey wrote back to say she was a bad poet and to consider another career, a letter that greatly hurt her. One scholar Dawn Potter wrote that Brontë had a streak of sadism in her novels with her characters always suffering in some way, which she suggested was due to her own unhappy life. In 1839 she took up the first of many positions as governess to families in Yorkshire, a career she pursued until 1841. In particular, from May to July 1839"
"Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but"
"careful thought, a sense of responsibility and resolute determination. All three Brontë sisters worked as governesses or teachers, and all experienced problems controlling their charges, gaining support from their employers, and coping with homesickness—but Anne was the only one who persevered and made a success of her work. Anne and Branwell taught at Thorp Green for the next three years. Branwell entered into a secret relationship with his employer's wife, Lydia Robinson. When Anne and her brother returned home for the holidays in June 1846, she resigned her position. While Anne gave no reason for leaving Thorp Green, it is"
"characters, he also tended to depict a more middle class society than Dickens did. He is best known for his novel ""Vanity Fair"" (1848), subtitled ""A Novel without a Hero"", which is an example of a form popular in Victorian literature: a historical novel in which recent history is depicted. Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë produced notable works of the period, although these were not immediately appreciated by Victorian critics. ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847), Emily's only work, is an example of Gothic Romanticism from a woman's point of view, which examines class, myth, and gender. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), by her sister"
"times, he eventually rewards her virtue by sincerely proposing an equitable marriage to her. The book was one of the first bestsellers, with five editions printed in the first eleven months of release. Jane Austen is an important influence on romance genre fiction, and ""Pride and Prejudice"", published in 1813, has been called ""the best romance novel ever written."" In the early part of the Victorian era, the Brontë sisters, like Austen, wrote literary fiction that influenced later popular fiction. Charlotte Brontë in ""Jane Eyre"", published in 1847, introduced the orphaned heroine. Brontë's love romance incorporates elements of both the"
"and Son"" (1846–48), ""Bleak House"" (1852–53) and ""Little Dorrit"" (1855–57), ""Great Expectations"" (1860–1), and ""Our Mutual Friend"" (1864–65). An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63), who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for ""Vanity Fair"" (1847). The Brontë sisters, Emily, Charlotte and Anne, were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. Charlotte Brontë's (1816–55) work was ""Jane Eyre"", broke new ground in being written from"
"Anne Burke (writer) Anne Burke (fl.1780-1805) was an Irish novelist in the Gothic genre. She was one of the earliest women writers of Gothic fiction. Anne Burke had been a governess and was widowed with a son. She took up writing to support herself and her family. Becoming a writer did not provide the wealth she had hoped for. She applied for relief several times to the Royal Literary Fund from whom she received a total of 13 guineas. As a governess she hoped to set up a school despite having had to nurse her son through small pox. She"
"her to write novels. ""Agnes Tremorne"" appeared in 1861. Her four subsequent novels were ""The Cost of a Secret"" (1863), ""The Woman I Loved and the Woman Who Love Me"" (1865) (narrated by a male), ""Nora and Archibald Lee"" (1867), and ""The Crown of a Life"" (1869). These have been described as ""quirky and sometimes laboured."" The first concerns a woman artist in the period of struggle for Italian independence. Her writing often concerned women's occupations and independence, female artistic genius, mesmerism and spiritualism, and moral rather than physical beauty. Blagden's manuscript poems were collected posthumously by Linda Mazini and"
"E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Princess Brambilla (1821) is more concerned with the interplay between jealousy and the theater, between reality and masks. In Charlotte Brontë’s ""Villette"" (1853) jealousy becomes a game of reflections and speculations, a potent denial of sexual stereotypes, and, like many novels written by women, an angry rejection of the violation of the individual caused by the gaze of the jealous lover. Anthony Trollope uses both ""He Knew He Was Right"" (1869) and ""Kept in the Dark"" (1882) to analyze not only double standards used to judge how men and women behave but also the relationship between"
"curate at Wellington, Shropshire, and in 1810 his first published poem, ""Winter Evening Thoughts"", appeared in a local newspaper, followed in 1811 by a collection of moral verses, ""Cottage Poems"". He moved to the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1811 as assistant curate at Hartshead, where he served until 1815. In the meantime (1812) he was appointed a school examiner at a Wesleyan academy, Woodhouse Grove School, near Guiseley. In 1815 he moved again on becoming perpetual curate of Thornton. At Guiseley, Brontë met Maria Branwell (1783–1821), whom he married on 29 December 1812. Their first child, Maria (1813–1825), was"
"know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published ""Shirley"" and ""Jane Eyre"" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance"
"a mid-twentieth century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16. This novel is based on ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), by Charlotte Brontë, re-told from the perspective of a subaltern protagonist, Antoinette Cosway. It is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a white Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to a certain English gentleman—he is never named by the author. He renames her to a prosaic Bertha, declares her mad, and requires her to relocate to England."
"has been speculated that Brontë originally planned to let Caroline die but changed her mind because of her family tragedies. However, Ellen Nussey, Charlotte's lifelong friend, claimed that the character of Caroline was based on herself. Charlotte Brontë told Elizabeth Gaskell that Shirley is what she believed her sister, Emily Brontë, would have been if she had been born into a wealthy family. Again, Ellen Nussey, who knew Emily as well as anyone outside the family, didn't recognise her in Shirley. The maiden name of Mrs. Pryor is Agnes Grey, the name of the main character in Anne's first novel."
"acclaiming it as ""the first presentment of that Feminist novel"", she stated that ""it bores to tears."" Her opinion of Helen was also mixed: ""If Agnes Grey is a little prig, Helen Huntingdon is a prig enormous... She is Anne Bronte's idea of noble womanhood, the first of the modern, large-souled, intellectual heroines."" The only thing Sinclair wholly approved of was author's treatment of marital laws of the time: ""Anne Brontë attacks her problem with a freedom and audacity before which her sisters’ boldest enterprises seem cowardly and restrained... Her behaviour is the least unusual, not to say revolutionary."" Despite"
"""Oliver Twist"", the failures of the legal system in ""Bleak House"", An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now known almost exclusively for ""Vanity Fair"" (1847). The Brontë sisters, Emily, Charlotte and Anne, were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), Charlotte Brontë's most famous work, was the first of the sisters' novels to achieve success. Emily Brontë's (1818–1848) novel was ""Wuthering Heights"" and, according to Juliet Gardiner, ""the vivid sexual passion and power of its language and imagery impressed,"
"Helen's diary; and in turn, Helen's diary includes Arthur's autobiographical reminiscences. Anne Brontë starts her novel in a social comedy manner, reminiscent of Jane Austen. Like ""Pride and Prejudice"", ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" starts with the arrival of a new person in a neighbourhood — a source of curiosity for a small rural community. Unlike Austen, Brontë makes a woman the center of interest. Reticent Mrs. Graham with her views on alcohol consumption and girls’ education, controversial for the 19th century, soon becomes an outcast. Tess O'Toole calls ""The Tenant"" ""the most unusual example of 19th century domestic fiction"","
"Villette (novel) Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. ""Villette"" was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by ""The Professor"" (her posthumously published first novel, of which ""Villette"" is a reworking), ""Jane Eyre"", and ""Shirley"". In 1842 Charlotte Brontë, at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. There they enrolled in a ""pensionnat"""
"received with great enthusiasm in France. Anne-Sophie Brasme Anne-Sophie Brasme (born 1984 in Metz) is a French writer. Brasme wrote her first novel, ""Breathe"" (also known as ""Respire"") at age 16. It's about a friendship that degenerates to the point of obsession. The novel was on the bestseller list of France for months and has been sold in 17 countries. It was awarded the Prix Contrepoint in 2002. Her second novel, ""The First Time I Saw It on a Saturday Afternoon"" (also known as ""Le carnaval des monstres""), is about the ugliness of two people who are both destroyed by"
"that there are others that will amuse the more lively reader. The whole is much superior to any thing of the kind that had lately come into our hands before we read [Inchbald's Nature and Art, likewise here reviewed]."" Monthly Magazine / JAS, 1801 vol. 11 (1801): 606. ""Mr [sic] Burke's 'Elliot, or, the Vicissitudes of Early Life,' is a well-written and pathetic narration."" Anne Burke (writer) Anne Burke (fl.1780-1805) was an Irish novelist in the Gothic genre. She was one of the earliest women writers of Gothic fiction. Anne Burke had been a governess and was widowed with a"