Because her poetry was so successful Anne Brontë wrote a book called ‘Agnes Grey’. It was a book about a governess who taught in two rich familys. In both families, Agnes Grey was treated very cruelly. It was based on her experiences with her first Family. She also wrote a book called ‘The Tenant of WildfellHall’, which was about an artist who had run away from her abusive husband. At the time she was writing it was illegal for women to live separately from their husbands, this was a scandalous novel. It caused lots of people to discuss whether this were an appropriate topic for a woman to be reading and writing about. Anne replied “All novels should be written for both men and women to read”