Anne's life is unfortunate. She fell in love with her father's assistant, Willie Wei Teman, but Wei Teman died suddenly when Anne was working as a tutor in other places. It took Anne a long time to get the news of his death. Her brother's heavy drinking shattered the sisters' desire to start a school at home. At the same time, Anne has to endure the illness. But she never complained, and silently endured the mental and physical pain with amazing perseverance. Shortly after several of her works were published, she died in May 1849 in scarborough, a seaside resort far from home. Her last words were: "Be brave, Charlotte, be brave!" 1820 65438+1October 17. anne bronte was born in the residence of the Bronte family at No.74 Market Street, salton, West Yorkshire. For two adults, six children, two servants and a nurse, there is no room to stand. After Pastor Bronte wrote letters everywhere to apply for a job, he was appointed as the resident parish priest in Haworth, seven miles away. Compared with Thornton, Haworth is more prosperous, and the priest lives in five bedrooms, which is far more spacious than before. However, Haworth lacks drainage system and drinking water is seriously polluted. The local average life expectancy is only 25 years old. Looking out of the window of the priest's residence, there is a churchyard where many young children are buried. Maria was diagnosed with cancer when the Brontes moved to Haworth. In order to help Reverend Bronte, who is busy with parish affairs, look after Maria, Maria's sister Elizabeth branwell came to Haworth. 1821September 15, Maria died. Soon, Reverend Bronte, who recovered from grief, continued to deal with parish affairs. At the end of the year, he visited a friend's house, and Maria's friend Elizabeth Foss expressed sympathy and comfort to him. The priest then proposed to him, hoping to find a stepmother for his six children, but was rejected.
Elizabeth Menstruation, who came to take care of Maria, stayed at home to raise six children. With the growth of their six children, Maria and Elizabeth, who have been able to take care of themselves, will try their best to help with some housework during menstruation, while Anne, the youngest, has become the darling of Elizabeth's menstruation, and they have been sharing the same room. Anne was sickly since she was a child. Later, in her autobiographical poem "Self-communion", she recalled that the deepest impression of her childhood was that she felt "helpless, thin and full of unwarranted fears; Simple, easy to cheat, believe everything you hear. " When Anne was four years old, Reverend Bronte asked her, "What did you want most when you were a child?" Anne answered "age and experience". When Anne was growing up, Elizabeth Menstrual's devout Methodist faith had a great influence, and Tabby Ackroyd, the new maid of the Bronte family, brought many "Irish myths and rural legends in northern England" to the children. /kloc-in the summer of 0/825, Maria and Elizabeth, who went out to school, fell ill and died one after another, and the whole family fell into sorrow and pain. Reverend Bronte never dared to send his children out again, but educated them at home. He encourages children to read more books, while Elizabeth Menstruation wants girls to learn more about home economics. So the children borrow books from the Kisley library four miles away at a fixed time every day and bring back heavy books. 1826 In June, Pastor Bronte gave a group of toy soldiers from branwell as gifts to the children, which stimulated their imagination. They named the soldiers and arranged their personalities. Charlotte recalled that Anne chose a "little soldier who looks like herself" and called it a "waiting boy".
In the following years, several children set out from these soldiers and created a fictional African country called Anglia. Angles contain many characteristics of the real world. Charlotte and Branwell wrote poems in the tone of Angeria's life characters, and wrote Angeria's chronicle with mixed authenticity. However, it is hard to know how much role Anne, who is less than ten years old, has played in the construction of Anglia. As she grew older, Anne also studied Latin, French, music and art with local priests. Books collected at home, such as edmund burke's aesthetic works, Paradise Lost by john milton, Analysis of Melancholy by Robert Burton, and Methodist magazine subscribed by Elizabeth Menses, all influenced her.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/832, Pastor Bronte established a local Catholic Sunday school, and the children took turns to be teachers. Branwell was rated as "completely impatient", while Anne was considered as "the kindest looking one, but the most rigorous one in teaching". Charlotte went to Roy Head School for a year and went home for a holiday. She recalled that one of the things she would do when she came back was to make tea to cheer up Anne and Emily who were tired of teaching. 1833, Charlotte's friend Ellen Nussey visited Haworth. She wrote: "Anne, a lovely and quiet Anne ... beautiful light brown hair curled around her neck, charming blue-purple eyes, carefully drawn eyebrows and a white face like transparent jade." Anne and Emily are like twins, inseparable companions, with the same temperament and consistency.
Annie and Emily, who are "like twins", often write illustrated diaries together. In the diary of 1834, Emily mentioned the name "Gandahl" for the first time. Gandahl is a fictional country created by Emily and Anne, which belongs to them and is Anglia's neighbor. Gandahl's scenery is mostly set in heather all over West Yorkshire, and its wars, alliances, loans and other events with neighboring countries all originated from the political situation at that time. Emily and Anne imagined themselves as characters in Gandahl and wrote many poems and narrative fragments. Emily, who has a strong personality, occupies the dominant position. Anne is obedient to her sister, but sometimes she feels that no one understands her. When Emily came home, Anne went to Rotherhead School instead of her. This is the first time that she left home at the age of fifteen. Charlotte has been teaching at school, which makes her unable to take care of Anne, but she is really concerned about her sister's health. Annie doesn't have any friends at school. She just studies quietly and hard. She knows that she needs to receive a school education and make a living with what she has learned. In the end, she won the Excellence Award of 1836. Anne and Charlotte came home before Christmas. Anne took care of the injured maid Tabby Ackroyd and continued to write poems about Gandahl. At this time, she wrote "Mrs. Gerarda", which played up a gloomy atmosphere and described the despair of Mrs. Gerarda, Gandahl. This is also the first existing poem of anne bronte.
1837, after being exposed to many Calvinist ideas, Anne encountered a crisis of faith on whether everyone could be saved. Charlotte always thought Anne was a child and her classmates were too young. This nowhere to talk led her to write a poem "The Voice in the Dungeon" and then fell ill. Anne's symptoms are severe stomachache and difficulty in speaking. Later, she wrote this in her poem: "The dear name, the name I struggled to shout in vain, disappeared into the almost indistinguishable whisper on the tip of the tongue." La Trop of Moravia Church visited Anne many times. Through his enlightenment, Anne's crisis of faith was alleviated, but her condition was still not optimistic. Charlotte was so anxious about it that she even quarreled with Anne's teacher, Miss Waller. 1838 65438+ 10 Reverend Bronte took Anne home, and she gradually recovered. Considering Anne's unstable health, Reverend Bronte asked her to stay at home and never go back to school, so Anne stayed at home and Emily continued to write poems and diaries about Gandahl. 1839 In the spring, Branwell's plan to open an art studio failed and he had to go home. Emily worked as a tutor for a while, and then went home to recuperate because of health problems. Charlotte can't find a job at present. Reverend Bronte found that he had to support several children with his meager salary again.
Quiet and realistic Anne helped her family in her own way. She found a job as a tutor at Ingham's home in Black Manor. Anne refused to be accompanied by anyone, went alone and soon settled down. Anne soon found that the situation was far worse than expected. The students are arrogant and savage, so it is difficult for her to control them, let alone let them learn anything. Once she was so angry that she locked the students on the legs of the desk. Anne complained to her children's parents, but she didn't get their support. On the contrary, she is considered unfit to be a governess.
On Christmas Day 1839, Anne who lost her job came home and the three sisters were reunited. My personal experience at Black Manor was later written by Anne in Agnes Gray. Anne met his father's new assistant, William Videman (18 14- 1842). Videman, a graduate of Durham University, has been working in the parish since the end of August. He is very popular in the parish. /kloc-On Valentine's Day in 0/840, Videman wrote a poem to each of the three sisters who had never received a Valentine's Day hymn. At this stage, Anne appeared a sentimental woman facing the sea in her paintings, and a man and a sentimental woman appeared in her poems. The researchers speculated that she had strong feelings for Videman.
1840 In May, Anne found her second job as a tutor for four children at Robinson's home in Thorpe Green. In June, she followed the Robinson family to scarborough, North Yorkshire. Annie likes scarborough, which is adjacent to the seaside and has beautiful scenery. She is willing to take a walk here and discover wonderful landscapes. From the second half of 1840, Anne's poems were divided. After returning home, she will write poems about Gandahl with Emily, and even travel with Emily to imitate the characters in Gandahl, but when she is in Thorpe Green, she will write poems expressing her personal feelings.
Soon, Anne found herself in the same problem at Black Manor: she was very homesick, her children were out of control, and the Robinsons didn't support her. She even wrote in her diary, "I don't like the situation in this family. I hope I can change it." She didn't change anything, but she did stick to it and became friends with her two students.
184 1 Anne, who went home for holiday in June, saw Videman again, but it wasn't long before she went to scarborough to meet Robinson. At this time, she began to write her own independent diary, which mentioned that the three sisters planned to open their own schools. 1842, Anne who went home for holiday found that Videman had died of cholera. In February of the same year, she wrote an elegy for "an unknown person", expressing her sadness and pain. At this time, the Bronte sisters considered several school sites, including the priest's residence, but they didn't really put them into action. Their efforts to start a school were also written by Agnes Gray. 1842165438+1At the beginning of October, Elizabeth, who raised the Bronte sisters, passed away during menstruation. Charlotte and Emily were both studying in Brussels, and only Anne hurried back to attend the funeral. 1843 65438+ 10 Anne returned to Thorpe Green, and later found a job for her brother branwell as a tutor for Edmund who has grown up. From 1844, Anne became more and more intolerant of the Robinson family's environment, and under the influence of the Robinson family, Branwell became more unrestrained, which made Anne very miserable. She can only write poems to solve it. 1in June, 845, anne bronte suddenly resigned as a governess of Thorne Green and returned to Haworth. On the whole, because his brother branwell was having an affair with Mrs Robinson, Mr Robinson suggested Anne to act as a middleman. When Anne returned home, she began to write Agnes Gray while accompanying her visually impaired and depressed father. In autumn, Charlotte came across Emily's poem and thought it could be published. Emily, who has a strong personality, is very dissatisfied with Charlotte's discovery and thinks that her sister has interfered with her privacy. Annie is basically in favor of Charlotte's plan. In order to quell the quarrel between Charlotte and Emily, she volunteered to contribute her own poems.
The three sisters didn't even tell branwell and her father. Anne and Emily each chose 2 1 the first poem written after 1840, while Charlotte chose 19 of her early poems and sent this collection of poems to the publishing house with the money provided by Elizabeth Menstruation. All three sisters used pseudonyms for fear that critics would give unfair comments because the author was a woman. The pseudonym is Bell, an assistant pastor from the church. The initials of the three names are the same as those of the three sisters, and Anne becomes acton Bell. 1846 In May, the 165-page collection of poems by Kuler, Alice and acton Bell began to be sold. Critics gave some favorable comments, but the sales volume was very bleak. Only two volumes were sold in the first year. Charlotte later thought that among the poems of the three sisters, her own poems were naive, Emily's poems were "rough, melancholy and lofty", and Anne's poems "had their own sincere and lovely sad flavor". 1848 In August, Anne's two poems, Narrow Road and Three Tour Guides, were published in Fraser magazine, which is the only poem published by the three sisters except poetry collection. On September 24th, branwell, who had been drinking for a long time, died at the age of 365,438+0, which was a great blow to the whole family, and Emily and Anne were exhausted from preparing for branwell's funeral. In winter, the whole family had symptoms of cough and cold, especially Emily's illness, and she died in 65438+February 65438+September. Emily's death made Anne, who had always been close to her, even more sad. Anne began to have obvious shortness of breath and asthma, but she still supported her illness and wrote a reply to a theologian to discuss the universalism mentioned in The Tenant of Wildfield Manor. The letter said, "I hoped it with trepidation at first, but later I firmly and happily believed it was true."
1In the first ten days of June, 849, Anne's condition became worse, and the doctor diagnosed her with tuberculosis, suggesting that her condition was in the advanced stage and it was difficult to recover. Anne accepted the news calmly and with restraint. Unlike Emily, she took the medicine completely according to the doctor's advice. In the next few months, her condition fluctuated, but she was obviously thin and weak. She decided to go back to scarborough, her favorite place. On May 24th, Anne and her father said goodbye to the servants at home and left Haworth with Charlotte and Irene Nussy. They stayed in York for a day and a night. Anne went shopping with Charlotte in a wheelchair and visited her favorite York Cathedral. The next day, Anne of Charlotte, not wanting to be limited by her illness, hired a donkey cart to go out. When they found her, they found that she was teaching the driver boy to be kind to donkeys. On May 27th, Anne, who was in critical condition, saw that Charlotte could hardly restrain her sadness and said to her, "Take courage, Charlotte, take courage". At two o'clock the next afternoon, Anne died.
Charlotte wrote: "She left without a violent struggle. She believed in God and deeply believed that there would be a better life in front of her." She decided to "avoid another funeral for her father" ... I want Anne to rest in peace where she feels happiest. She likes scarborough. "So Anne was buried in the cemetery of St Mary's Church in scarborough. On May 30th, a funeral was held. The tombstone reads: "anne bronte is buried here. She is the daughter of Reverend Patrick Bronte of Haworth. She went, aged 28,1May 28th, 849 ". When Charlotte came back here three years later, she found several mistakes in the tombstone, so she carved it again, but she still carved Anne's death age as 28. 20 13 April, Bronte Society rebuilt the tombstone and changed it to 29 years old.