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Anne Brontë (Pseudonym Acton Bell)
(1820 – 1849)

Literature written by Anne Brontë - Pseudonym, Acton Bell

Novel

Agnes Grey (1847)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Poems

Written while at Thorp Green

The Bluebell

But when I looked upon the bank

My wandering glances fell

Upon a little trembling flower,

A single sweet bluebell.

Whence came that rising in my throat,

That dimness in my eye?

Why did those burning drops distil -

Those bitter feelings rise?

O, that lone flower recalled to me

My happy childhood's hours

When bluebells seemed like fairy gifts

A prize among the flowers.

Those sunny days of merriment

When heart and soul were free,

And when I dwelt with kindred hearts

That loved and cared for me.