Person    | Female  Born 17/1/1820  Died 28/5/1849

Anne Brontë

Categories: Literature

Novelist and poet. Born Yorkshire. Youngest member of the Bonte literary family. Novels: 'Agnes Grey', 'Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. See Charlotte Brontë for more.

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Anne Brontë

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