Anne Brontë wrote nineteenth-century fiction about work, marriage, religion and the restricted choices available to women. Agnes Grey draws on the experience of a young governess moving between difficult employers and observing how class and money shape family life. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is darker and more confrontational, following Helen Graham as she attempts to protect herself and her son from an abusive marriage while concealing her past from a new community. Brontë's prose is direct, morally serious and less gothic than the work of her sisters, with practical detail about employment and domestic power central. Her work fits Victorian fiction, governess novels and early feminist writing about marriage and independence. Readers moving between the Brontë sisters will find less supernatural atmosphere here than in Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, and more sustained attention to economic dependence, alcoholism and the legal vulnerability of married women. Read more Less
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