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Anne bronte grey6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() And my schoolroom, and my new books, Tom, said Mary Ann. Come and kiss dear mamma and then won’t you show Miss Grey your schoolroom, and your nice new books I won’t kiss you, mamma but I will show Miss Grey my schoolroom, and my new books. A fortnight later, Anne was diagnosed with the same disease. Oh, Tom, what a darling you are exclaimed his mother. That year, both Anne's brother Branwell and her sister Emily died of tuberculosis. She published Agnes Grey in 1847 and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. In 1846, along with Charlotte and Emily, she published Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. She worked as a governess with the Ingham family (1839-40) and with the Robinson family (1840-45). After that, Anne, Charlotte, Emily and Branwell were taught at home for a few years, and together, they created vivid fantasy worlds which they explored in their writing. Read more Bridge, where Maria and Elizabeth both caught tuberculosis and died. Agnes Grey is based on Anne Brontës own experiences as a governess and is full of interest both for its autobiographical content and its powerful depiction of the plight of the governess in Victorian society. She was four when her older sisters were sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan. Anne Brontë Edited by Robert Inglesfield, Hilda Marsden, and Sally Shuttleworth Oxford Worlds Classics. That April, the Brontes moved to Haworth, a village on the edge of the moors, where Anne's father had become the curate. ![]() Anne Bronte was born at Thornton in Yorkshire on 17 January 1820, the youngest of six children. ![]()
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