![]() ![]() ![]() The four surviving children immersed themselves in the creation of fictional kingdoms that became the basis for hundreds of prose and poetry works. Anne and Emily Brontë created a mystical, imaginary realm called Gondal.Īround four years after the death of their mother, the two eldest Brontë sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, also died. Maria’s sister, Elizabeth, stepped in to raise the children Anne was said to be her favorite. When Anne was just 20 months old, her mother died, probably of uterine cancer. She was the couple’s sixth child, and shortly after her birth, the family relocated to the industrial town of Haworth, near the windswept Yorkshire moors so often associated with the Brontë sisters. On January 17, 1820, Anne Brontë was born to Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria Branwell Brontë in the English village of Thornton. Anne Brontë was the youngest of six children. To mark the 200th anniversary of her birth in 2020, here are 11 enlightening facts about this underappreciated Brontë sister. She worked hard to earn a living, spun vivid tales of an imaginary kingdom, and wrote forcefully about the social oppression of women. ![]() The English critic George Saintsbury once deemed Anne a “pale reflection of her elders” her own sister, Charlotte, dismissed her as a “gentle, retiring, inexperienced writer.” But such perceptions of Anne as bland and inferior are changing. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë are an iconic literary trio-but of the three sisters, Anne has been the least read and, arguably, the least understood. ![]()
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