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The youngest of the well-known Bront siblings, Anne Bront (1820-1849) grew up drawing and writing poetry in secret. As a child, Anne spent countless hours on the Yorkshire moors with her sister, Emily, creating an imaginary world called Gondal. Anne attended school at age fifteen, and there she experienced an episode of spiritual crisis, which is evidenced in many of her poems. She later worked as a governess before collaborating with her sisters, Emily and Charlotte, on a collection of poetry in 1846. The sisters used pen names to publish their work - Anne wrote as Acton Bell - to avoid unfair judgment as women writers. Although the collection sold poorly, Anne found a market for her own poetry, and was published in Fraser's Magazine. Unfortunately, her deeply insightful collection of work was cut short by an early death, and is therefore often overshadowed by that of her sisters. No library descriptions found. |
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I'm not a fan of poetry and this is the first collection of poems that I've read willingly - they forced me to read a lot at university.
My reason for reading this collection is because I'm a big fan of Anne's prose fiction. As she only wrote two novels, I wanted to read everything else she penned during her short life.
I'd recently read 20 of these poems in a mixture of prose and poetry featured in the collection of works by the Brontë siblings - namely 'Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal' - and discovered that Anne's poetry was far more palatable than any poems I'd read at university.
Anne's poems are largely epic, telling stories, rather than trying to be cryptic and saying one thing whilst meaning another, which is why I didn't dislike this collection. ( )