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Anne Brontë
(17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet. She wrote 
two novels, Agnes Grey (based on her own experiences as a governess) and The Tenant of Wildfell 
Hall. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was an instant phenomenal success, sold out within six weeks. Its 

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depiction of alcoholism and debauchery were profoundly disturbing to nineteenth century readers. 
It is also a noted feminist novel. Anne’s heroine eventually leaves her husband to protect their 
young son from his influence, as he is a cruel alcoholic. She supports herself and her son by 
painting, while living in hiding, fearful of discovery. In doing so, she violates not only social 
conventions, but also English law. At the time, a married woman had no independent legal 
existence, apart from her husband and could not own her own property, sue for divorce, or control 
custody of her children. If she attempted to live apart from him, her husband had the right to 
reclaim her. If she took their child with her, she was liable for kidnapping. In living off her own 
earnings, she was held to be stealing her husband’s property, since any income she made was 
legally his. As for Agnes Grey, George Moore praised it as “the most perfect prose narrative in 
English letters,” and went so far as to compare Anne’s prose to that of Jane Austen. Both novels are 
widely available in English. 
Christina Georgina Rossetti 
(5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet 
who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children’s poems. She is best known for her long 
poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the 
Bleak Midwinter. Her poem Love Came Down at Christmas has also been widely used for a carol. 
She was deeply religious and often suffered from depression, as well as suffering from Graves 
Disease for the last decades of her life; she eventually dieed of breast cancer. Her most famous 
collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems, appeared in 1862, when she was 31. It received 
widespread critical praise, establishing her as the main female poet of the time. Hopkins, 
Swinburne, and Tennyson praised her work, and with the death of poet Elizabeth Browning in 1861 
Rossetti was considered her natural successor. The title poem is one of Rossetti’s best known 
works. Although it is literally about two sisters’ misadventures with goblins, critics have interpreted 
the piece in a variety of ways: seeing it as an allegory about temptation and salvation; a 
commentary on Victorian gender roles and female agency; and a work about erotic desire and social 
redemption. Her works are widely available in English.