Agnes Grey - Softcover

Brontė, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1519734263 ISBN 13: 9781519734266

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Anne Brontė (1820-1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontė literary family. The daughter of Patrick Brontė, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontė lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. She also attended a boarding school in Mirfield between 1836 and 1837. At 19 she left Haworth and worked as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. “Agnes Grey” is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontė, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850.[1] The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry.

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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."

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1519734263
• ISBN 13: 9781519734266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148
• Editor: Montelupo Guido