Saturday, June 17, 2006

Anne Bronte.


On my recent trip back to Scarborough, I was able to visit once again Anne Bronte's grave in the graveyard of St Mary's Church which is situated atop a hill in the South bay area. As a child of seven I had visited this grave with my parents when we were in Scarborough on holiday. I had always remembered that visit albeit at that point in my life knew nothing of the Bronte's. On return visits to Scarborough as a student never took the time to visit the grave, so this trip I was determined. It was not as I remembered it, only the colour of the stone, passing years cloud the vision one once had.
In the intervening years I read 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte, visited The Parsonage at Haworth where they all lived with their father and brother but never realised that Anne had written novels. Two of the best known are 'Agnes Grey' and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' so will try to obtain one and settle down to read it.
Anne died in Scarborough age twenty-nine years although on her gravestone it states she was twenty eight years. R.I.P.

1 Comments:

Blogger Brontëana said...

Hi. I came across your blog while searching for posts about the Brontes. If you don't mind reading etexts, you can read the full texts of Anne's poetry and both of her novels:

Agnes Grey: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/767

Tenant of Wildfell Hall: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/969

Poems of Currer, Acton, and Ellis Bell (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte):
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1019

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