Anne Brontë (1820-1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest of the three writing Brontë sisters, and the one who spent longest working as a governess. Publishing as Acton Bell, she wrote Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), an unsparing account of a woman leaving an alcoholic husband that her sister Charlotte later suppressed as too coarse. She died of tuberculosis at twenty-nine, and was long the least read of the three.