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Agnes Grey

By Anne Bronte
Introduction by Barbara A. Suess

By Anne Bronte
Introduction by Barbara A. Suess

By Anne Bronte
Introduction by Barbara A. Suess

By Anne Bronte
Introduction by Barbara A. Suess

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Apr 08, 2003 | ISBN 9780812967135

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Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307430595

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    About Agnes Grey

    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 Brontë’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, “Brontë provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting.”

    About Agnes Grey

    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 Brontë’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, “Brontë provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting.”

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    About Anne Bronte

    Anne Bronte was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, on January 17, 1820. She was the sixth and youngest child of Reverend Patrick Bronte, an Irishman by birth, and Maria Branwell Bronte, who was from a prosperous Cornish family. Following her mother’s… More about Anne Bronte

    About Anne Bronte

    Anne Bronte was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, on January 17, 1820. She was the sixth and youngest child of Reverend Patrick Bronte, an Irishman by birth, and Maria Branwell Bronte, who was from a prosperous Cornish family. Following her mother’s… More about Anne Bronte

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $12.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Apr 08, 2003 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812967135

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Dec 18, 2007 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780307430595

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