BRONTË expert Ann Dinsdale is putting the spotlight on the least-famous Brontë sister Anne.

Ann, who works at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, has written and presented a new DVD entitled Anne Brontë: The Final Journey.

The film, created with Haworth man James Hutton, who runs Bay Video Productions, focuses on the last few months of Anne’s life.

The pair filmed in York and Scarborough as well as Haworth as they followed in the footsteps of Charlotte and Emily’s younger sister.

Ann said: “Anne was the youngest member of the Bronte family who is usually seen as having lived her life in the shadow of her sisters.”

Anne wrote the novel The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, which, while not as famous as Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, is regarded as one of the first feminist novels.

Ann, born in 1820, left Haworth at the age of 19 and worked for several years as a governess then died at the age of 29 from pulmonary tuberculosis.

Ann Dinsdale is the collections manager for the Brontë Society at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, while James’s mother Joanna Hutton was the museum curator in the 1960s.

James and his sister Sarah, who was also involved in filming the DVD, grew up at the Parsonage.

James started making documentary videos in 2006 when he worked with writer Norman Scoles on A History of Robin Hood's Bay.

James said: “This sold so well that in 2007, we produced A Haworth History Trail which was again released on DVD.

“We made our next documentary for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway entitled A History of the Whitby and Pickering Railway.”

Anne Brontë: The Final Journey will be sold in the shop at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Visit bayvideoproductions.co.uk to buy any of the Bay Video Productions DVDs.