Anne Bronte

English writer (Thornton, January 17, 1820 – Scarborough, May 28, 1849). The youngest of six children of a vicar in the English county of Yorkshire, sister of the writers Charlotte and Emily and the painter and poet Branwell (1817–1848); except for a brief schooling at Mirfield, she was educated mainly at home in Haworth. She worked as a governess, and in 1846, together with her sisters, she published a little-noticed collection of poetry, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, in which her poems were published under the pseudonym Acton Bell, with which she also signed her other works . The following year, she published the novel Agnes Gray (Croatian translation 2017), about the difficult social position of the governess of the same name, imbued with autobiographical elements, in the edition with Sister Emily's Hurricane Heights. She expressed her interest in the characters of independent women, a social-critical and moralistic approach to the content, realism and irony, in her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848, Croatian translation 1974), published before her death (like Emily, Brother and Two her older sisters died of tuberculosis), which is considered one of the first feminist novels because of its controversial and subversive story about a woman on the run from her alcoholic husband. Therefore, her work, until then mostly in the shadow of her more famous sisters, has particularly aroused the interest of feminist literary criticism since the end of the 20th century.