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Chapters: Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Branwell Brontë, Donald Duckett. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anne Brontë (pronounced or ) (17 January 1820 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the small parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of nineteen, she left Haworth working as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846) and in short succession she wrote two novels. Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847. Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall appeared in 1848. Anne's life was cut short with her death of pulmonary tuberculosis when she was 29 years old. Anne Brontë is often overshadowed by her more famous sisters, Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre; and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights. Anne's two novels, written in a sharp and ironic style, are completely different from the romanticism followed by her sisters. She wrote in a realistic, rather than a romantic style. Her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature. Anne from Branwell's group portrait (below)Anne's father, Patrick Brontë (17771861), was born in a meagre two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland. He was the first of ten children born to Hugh Brunty and Eleanor McCrory, a couple of poor Irish peasant farmers. The family surname mac Aedh Ó Proinntigh ...http://booksllc.net/?id=2029 ... Read more

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Mr. Bronte afflicted with blindness, and relieved by a successful operation for cataract--Charlotte Bronte's first work of fiction, "The Professor"--She commences "Jane Eyre"--Circumstances attending its composition--Her ideas of a heroine--Her attachment to home--Haworth in December--A letter of confession and counsel.

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Mr. Bronte afflicted with blindness, and relieved by a successful operation for cataract--Charlotte Bronte's first work of fiction, "The Professor"--She commences "Jane Eyre"--Circumstances attending its composition--Her ideas of a heroine--Her attachment to home--Haworth in December--A letter of confession and counsel.
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Mr. Bronte afflicted with blindness, and relieved by a successful operation for cataract--Charlotte Bronte's first work of fiction, The Professor--She commences Jane Eyre--Circumstances attending its composition--Her ideas of a heroine--Her attachment to home--Haworth in December--A letter of confession and counsel.
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Mr. Bronte afflicted with blindness, and relieved by a successful operation for cataract--Charlotte Bronte's first work of fiction, "The Professor"--She commences "Jane Eyre"--Circumstances attending its composition--Her ideas of a heroine--Her attachment to home--Haworth in December--A letter of confession and counsel.
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The Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe. Keighley station is on this line of railway, about a quarter of a mile from the town of the same name. The number of inhabitants and the importance of Keighley have been very greatly increased during the last twenty years, owing to the rapidly extended market for worsted manufactures, a branch of industry that mainly employs the factory population of this part of Yorkshire, which has Bradford for its centre and metropolis. ... Read more