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Anne Brontë

1820 - 1849

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Anne Brontë (, commonly ; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. Anne Brontë was the daughter of Maria (née Branwell) and Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England. Anne lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire Dales. Otherwise, she attended a boarding school in Mirfield between 1836 and 1837, and between 1839 and 1845 lived elsewhere working as a governess. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Brontë is the 327th most popular writer (down from 296th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 206th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Writer.

Annie Brontë is most famous for her novel "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."

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Among writers, Anne Brontë ranks 327 out of 7,302. Before her are Henri Charrière, Italo Calvino, Marguerite de Navarre, Nadine Gordimer, Paul Celan, and Colette. After her are André Malraux, William Golding, Callimachus, Jaggi Vasudev, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Philip K. Dick.

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Among people born in 1820, Anne Brontë ranks 7. Before her are Friedrich Engels, Florence Nightingale, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Herbert Spencer, Nadar, and William John Macquorn Rankine. After her are Harriet Tubman, Henri, Count of Chambord, Edmond Becquerel, Henri Vieuxtemps, Multatuli, and Jenny Lind. Among people deceased in 1849, Anne Brontë ranks 7. Before her are Frédéric Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, James K. Polk, Hokusai, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, and Johann Strauss I. After her are William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Charles Albert of Sardinia, and René Lesson.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Anne Brontë ranks 312 out of 8,785. Before her are Henry IV of England (1367), Michael York (1942), Thomas Newcomen (1663), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), and Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881). After her are William Golding (1911), Thomas Reid (1710), Roger Waters (1943), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Robert Shaw (1927), and Kate Bush (1958).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anne Brontë ranks 30. Before her are William Blake (1757), W. H. Auden (1907), C. S. Lewis (1898), J. K. Rowling (1965), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), and Arthur C. Clarke (1917). After her are William Golding (1911), Roald Dahl (1916), John Keats (1795), Jane Hawking (1944), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), and Christopher Marlowe (1564).

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