Anne Brontë was a member of the renowned Brontë literary family, and the younger sister of Charlotte, Emily, and Branwell Brontë. She was born in 1820 in Thornton, West Yorkshire, and passed away in 1849 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Anne is known for her 1847 novel Agnes Grey, which drew upon her own experiences as a governess, and her 1848 novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered one of the first feminist novels. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, in particular, was a groundbreaking work that explored themes of female independence and the treatment of women in 19th-century society.