Anne Brontë

English, 1820–1849

Anne Brontë (1820–1849) was an English novelist and the youngest of the three literary Brontë sisters. Her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is considered one of the first feminist novels, depicting a woman's struggle for independence. Though her career was cut short by tuberculosis at age 29, her realistic portrayals of women's lives were remarkably ahead of their time.