Agnes Grey

By:

Anne Bronte

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Modern Library Classics

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Concerned for her family's financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Bronte's own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure. As Barbara A. Suess writes in her Introduction, "Bronte provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting."

Author Biography:

Barbara A. Suess, assistant professor of English at William Patterson University, is the co-editor of New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte and the author of Progress and Identity in the Plays of W. B. Yeats, 1892-1907.

Release date NZ

April 8th, 2003

Author

Anne Bronte

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Barbara A. Suess

Pages

240

Series

Modern Library Classics

Dimensions

131x202x14

ISBN-13

9780812967135

Product ID

3119741

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