Anne Brontë died at Scarborough on 28 May 1849, aged 29.

She had travelled there from Haworth while seriously ill. The illness was tuberculosis, often called consumption at the time. Scarborough was not a passing detail in the story. It was where she spent her final days, away from the parsonage and the family setting now most closely linked with the Brontës.

Anne was the youngest of the three Brontë sisters whose writing reached print. Charlotte and Emily are usually more prominent in public memory. Still, Anne’s own work does not need to be treated as an appendix to theirs. She had already published *Agnes Grey* and *The Tenant of Wildfell Hall*, as well as poetry written with her sisters.

Her death came less than a year after Emily’s. The family losses were severe, but let’s keep this entry focused on Anne rather than turning it into a general Brontë account.

She was buried in St Mary’s churchyard at Scarborough. The grave fixes the date to a place beyond Haworth, and it leaves Anne as a writer in her own right: young, ill and already responsible for work that lasted.