Yet just as her talents as a novelist are being reexamined, so too are her skills as a poet. With the emergence of the critical recognition of many noncanonical Victorian women poets and owing to the work of scholars and critics such as Edward Chitham, Tom Winnifrith, and Derek Stanford--who considers her one of the best Victorian women poets--Brontë's poetry is at last receiving the long-overdue recognition it deserves.
Born in Yorkshire, England, on 17 January 1820, Anne Brontë was the youngest daughter of the Reverend Patrick and Maria Branwell Brontë. She spent most of her early life in the village of Haworth at her home at the parsonage, and although her mother died in 1821, her Aunt Branwell joined the family and served as the household supervisor until her death in 1842. Perhaps to lessen the strain on Aunt Branwell and to help educate his daughters, Patrick Brontë decided to send his daughters away to get an education. Brontë was fortunate that as the youngest daughter she was unable to join her elder sisters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Emily at the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge because it was there that an epidemic occurred in 1825 that took the lives of Maria and Elizabeth and forced Emily and Charlotte to return to Haworth.
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