A REMINISCENCE by Anne Bronte download here https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/great-romantic-poems/id268168989?i=268172033Please see my Bronte Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg700EF7NB6EU0Bz0Ul-iOHrvhKciCnz3 Many thanks to Bluedotmusic for sharing this poem produced by Robert Nichol Audio Productions in 2002 Anne Bronte poerty Anne Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/;[1][2] 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 parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of 19 she left Haworth and worked 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 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, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848. Anne's life was cut short when she died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29. Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.[3] However her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB Anne's father, Patrick Brontë (1777--1861), was born in a two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland.[4][5] He was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty and Eleanor McCrory, poor Irish peasant farmers.[6] The family surname mac Aedh Ó Proinntigh was Anglicised as Prunty or Brunty.[4] Struggling against poverty, Patrick learned to read and write and from 1798 taught others. In 1802, at the age of 26, he won a place to study theology at St. John's College, Cambridge where he changed his name, Brunty, to the more distinguished sounding Brontë. In 1807 he was ordained in the priesthood in the Church of England.[7] He served as an assistant priest or curate in various parishes and in 1810, published his first poem Winter Evening Thoughts in a local newspaper,[8] followed in 1811 by a collection of moral verse, Cottage Poems.[9] In 1811, he became vicar of St. Peter's Church in Hartshead in Yorkshire.[10] The following year he was appointed an examiner of Bible knowledge at Woodhouse Grove School, a Wesleyan academy where, aged 35, he met his future wife, Maria Branwell, the headmaster's niece. Anne's mother, Maria Branwell (1783--1821), was the daughter of Thomas Branwell, a successful, property-owning grocer and tea merchant in Penzance and Anne Carne, the daughter of a silversmith.[11] The eighth of eleven children, Maria enjoyed the benefits of belonging to a prosperous family in a small town. After the death of her parents within a year of each other, Maria went to help her aunt teaching at the school. A tiny, neat woman, aged 30, she was well read and intelligent.[12] Her strong Methodist faith attracted Patrick Brontë Anne, the youngest member of the Brontë children, was born on 17 January 1820, at 74 Market Street in Thornton[16] where her father was curate and she was baptised there on 25 March 1820. Anne's father was appointed to the perpetual curacy in Haworth, a small town seven miles (11 km) away. In April 1820, the Brontës moved into the a five-roomed Haworth Parsonage which became their home for the rest of their lives. Anne was barely a year old when her mother became ill of what is believed to have been uterine cancer.[17] Maria Branwell died on 15 September 1821.[18] In order to provide a mother for his children, Patrick tried to remarry, but without success.[19] Maria's sister, Elizabeth Branwell (1776--1842), moved to the parsonage, initially to nurse her dying sister, but she spent the rest of her life there raising the children. She did it from a sense of duty, but she was a stern woman who expected respect, rather than love.[20] There was little affection between her and the older children, but Anne, according to tradition, was her favourite. Anne shared a room with her, they were close which may have influenced Anne's personality and religious beliefs

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