Anne Brontë (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English writer.

She was educated at home, and later attended a boarding school in Mirfield, between 1836 and 1837. Anne worked as a governess between 1839 and 1845. Her poems and novels were first published under the pen name of Acton Bell.

She died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29.

Anne Brontë – drawing in pencil by Charlotte Brontë, 1845

Anne Brontë, as painted by her brother Patrick Branwell Brontë, from a portrait with her sisters, 1834

Anne Brontë, detail of a pencil drawing by her sister Charlotte Brontë, c. 1845

Anne Brontë, by Charlotte Brontë, 1834

Books

• Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (a volume of poetry published with her sisters, 1846)
• Agnes Grey (1847)
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Books about her

• Barker, Juliet, The Brontës, 2000
• Chitham, Edward, A Life of Anne Brontë, 1991
• Fraser, Rebeca, The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë and her family, 1988
• Gérin, Winifred, Anne Brontë, 1976
• Harrison, Ada and Stanford, Derek, Anne Brontë – Her Life and Work, 1970
• Allott, Miriam, The Brontës: The Critical Heritage, 1984
• Chadwick, Ellis, In the Footsteps of the Brontës, 1982
• Langland, Elizabeth, Anne Brontë: The Other One, 1989
• Miller, Lucasta, The Brontë Myth, 2001
• Scott, P. J. M., Anne Brontë: A New Critical Assessment, 1983
• Wise, T. J. and Symington, J. A. (eds.), The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondences, 1932