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Facts

Also Known As Acton Bell
Born January 17, 1820 • England
Died May 28, 1849 (aged 29) • Scarborough • England
Notable Works “Agnes Grey” • “Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell” • “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”
Notable Family Members sister Emily Brontë • sister Charlotte Brontë

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Anne Brontë
Oil painting by Branwell Bronte showing Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Bronte standing together, with visible cracks and damage across the canvas.
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Portrait of Emily Bronte in profile, with curly dark hair, wearing a green dress with a white ruffled collar, from a painting by Branwell Bronte.
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet
Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
English author
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G.K. Chesterton
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Robert Graves
British writer
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Helen Maria Williams
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Horace Smith
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Malcolm Lowry
British novelist
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
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Radclyffe Hall
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John Wain
British critic and writer
Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.
Caroline Norton
British writer

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