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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 102: Agnes Grey

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    Charlotte was already teaching at the school. This status prevented her from paying much attention to Anne, but she did care about her sister's health.  Anne had no friends at school and just studied quietly and hard. She knew very well that she needed to receive a school education and use the knowledge she learned to make a living. In the end, she won the Award of Excellence awarded in 1836.

    Anne and Charlotte returned home just before Christmas 1836. Anne took care of her maid Tabby Ackroyd, who had been injured in a fall, while continuing to write poetry about Gondal.  "Lady Geralda", which she wrote at this time, exaggerates the gloomy atmosphere and depicts the despair of Lady Geralda in Gondar. This is also Anne Bronte's first extant poem.

    In 1837, after being exposed to a lot of Calvinist ideas, Anne encountered a crisis of faith on the issue of whether all people can be saved.

    Charlotte always thought that Anne was a child, and Anne's classmates were too young. This kind of nowhere to talk led her to write the poem "The Voice in the Dungeon", and then she fell ill.

    Anne's symptoms were severe stomach pain and difficulty speaking. She later wrote about this situation of no one to talk to in a poem: The dear name, the name I struggled in vain to shout, disappeared into the almost indistinguishable  Whispering on the tip of the tongue.

    Latrop of the Moravian Church visited Anne many times. Through his enlightenment, Anne's faith crisis was alleviated, but her condition was still not optimistic.

    Charlotte was very anxious about this and even quarreled with Anne's teacher Miss Waller.  Reverend Bront? took Anne home in January 1838, and she gradually recovered.

    Considering Anne¡¯s unstable health, Reverend Bronte asked her to stay at home and not go back to school. Anne continued to write poems and diaries about Gondal with Emily at home.

    In the spring of 1839, Branwell's plan to open an art studio failed and he had to go home; Emily worked as a governess for a while and then returned home to recuperate due to health problems; Charlotte could not find a job for a while; Reverend Bront? discovered  He once again encountered the situation of using his meager salary to support several children.

    Quiet and realistic Anne helps the family in her own way.  She was offered a position as governess to the Ingham family at Black Manor.

    Anne refused anyone to accompany her, went alone and quickly settled down.  Anne soon discovered that the situation was far worse than expected. The students were arrogant and brutal, and even deliberately tortured themselves.

    It was difficult for her to control them, let alone let them learn anything. Once she was so angry that she chained the students to the legs of the table.  Anne complained to the child's parents, but received no support from them and was deemed unfit to be a governess.

    On Christmas Day 1839, Anne returned home after losing her job.  The three sisters are reunited.  The various experiences she experienced at Black Manor were later written by Anne in "Agnes Grey".

    Anne meets her father's new assistant, William Wittman.  Wittman, who graduated from Durham University, started working at the parish at the end of August and is popular in the vicarage.

    On Valentine¡¯s Day in 1840, Wittmann wrote a poem to each of the three sisters who had never received a Valentine¡¯s Day hymn.

    The image of a sentimental woman facing the sea appears in Anne¡¯s paintings at this stage, and the images of men and passionate women like the rising sun also appear in the poems she wrote. Researchers speculate that she had a strong liking for Wittmann.

    In May 1840, Anne got her second job.  She went to work as governess to the Robinson family's four children in Thorpe Green.

    In June she went on holiday with the Robinson family to Scarborough, North Yorkshire.  Anne loves Scarborough, which is close to the sea and has beautiful scenery. She enjoys walking here and discovering the wonderful scenery.

    From the second half of 1840, Anne's poetry diverged. When she returned home, she would write poems about Gondal with Emily, and even went on a journey with Emily to imitate the characters in Gondal.  But she would write poems expressing her personal emotions while at Thorpe Green.

    Soon, Anne discovered that she encountered the same problems she had encountered at Black Manor: she was very homesick, her children were disobedient, and the Robinsons did not support her.  She even wrote in her diary that she didn't like the situation at this house and wanted to change it.  She couldn't change anything, but she did stay with the tenacity and became friends with two of her students.

    1841.  Anne returned home for the holidays and met Wittman again, but soon she went to Scarborough and the Robinsons to meet up again.  At this time she began to write her own independent diary.  In her diary she mentioned that the three sisters planned to open their own school.

    In 1842, Anne returned home for vacation and found that Wittmann had died of cholera. In December of the same year, she wrote an elegy for an unknown man, expressing her sorrow and pain.

    Sister Bronte considered several properties at this time, including the parsonage.The school site was established, but no actual action was taken, and the attempt to open a school was also written about in "Agnes Grey".

    In early November 1842, Aunt Elizabeth, who raised the Bronte sisters, died. Charlotte and Emily were attending school in Brussels at the time, and only Anne rushed back to attend the funeral.

    In 1843, Anne returned to Thorpe Green and later found a position for her brother Branwell as tutor to the grown-up Edmond.

    From 1844, Anne became increasingly intolerable to the environment of the Robinson family, and Branwell became more bohemian under the influence of the Robinson family, which made Anne very painful. She could only relieve herself by writing poetry.

    In 1845, Anne Bronte suddenly resigned from her position as governess at Thorngreen and returned to Haworth. It is generally believed that it was because of the ambiguous relationship between her brother Branwell and Mrs. Robinson, and Mr. Robinson suggested that Anne acted as a middleman.  .

    After Anne returned home, she began to write "Agnes Grey" while accompanying her father, who was suffering from vision loss and depression.

    In the fall, Charlotte came across Emily's poem and thought it might be published.  Emily, who has a strong personality, was very unhappy with Charlotte's discovery and believed that her sister had interfered with her own affairs.  Anne basically agreed with Charlotte's plan, and in order to calm the quarrel between Charlotte and Emily, she took the initiative to contribute her own poem.

    The three sisters did not even tell Branwell or their father. Anne and Emily each selected twenty-one poems written after 1840, while Charlotte selected nineteen of her early poems, plus Elijah.  With the money provided by Aunt Shakespeare, the collection of poems was sent to the publisher.

    Out of fear that reviewers would unfairly evaluate the author because she is a woman, the three sisters all used pseudonyms.  The pseudonym Bell came from the curate of the church. The first letters of the three names were the same as those of the three sisters. Anne became Acton Bell.

    In 1846, the 165-page "Collected Poems of Cooler, Ellis and Acton Bell" began to be sold. The critics gave some good reviews, but the sales were very dismal, with only two copies sold in the first year.

    Charlotte later believed that in the poem collections of the three sisters, her own poems were very childish, Emily's poems were rough, melancholy, and sublime and could be passed down to the world, while Anne's poems had their own sincere and lovely sad taste.

    Before the collection of poems had even received a response, the three Bront? sisters had already completed their first novels.  Due to different artistic views, cracks appeared in the relationship between the three sisters. Anne also wrote two poems calling for family harmony.

    In July 1846, a set of three novels, "The Teacher", "Roaring Heights (Wuthering Heights)" and "Agnes Grey", began to circulate in the hands of publishers in London.

    After several rejections, "Roaring Heights" and "Agnes Grey" were accepted, but "The Teacher" no one wanted to publish.  Charlotte soon wrote "Treasure", which was soon published.
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