An edition of Agnes Grey (1847)

Agnes Grey.

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Agnes Grey.
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An edition of Agnes Grey (1847)

Agnes Grey.

Thornton Edition.
  • 4.25 ·
  • 8 Ratings
  • 29 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

In her Introduction to an edition of "Agnes Grey," Barbara A. Suess writes "Bronte provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting." Anne Bronte relies on her own personal involvement in her duties as a home teacher to bring Agnes Grey to life. Agnes, a rector's daughter, must take employment as a governess to help her family make financial ends meet. But her situations with the spoiled, self-obsessed Bloomfield children and later with the ruthless Murray family forces her into a lonely, humiliating experience that is a wearying one extraordinarily blossoming into a romantic relationship with the local vicar, Edward Weston. Agnes' concern for her family brings her to these unfortunate trials where she suffers stupid and egotistic proprietors and their over-indulged progeny. She was not able to foresee the hardships she would have to undergo along with the class snobbery to which she was also subjected. And yet a career as a governess was the only "respectable" job available to an unmarried woman in Victorian England. Bronte's simple and uncomplicated rendition of these sordid affairs made circumstances surrounding such brutish conditions authentic enough to necessitate investigation and improvement.

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J Grant
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Agnes Grey
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Agnes Grey
2000, G.K. Hall, Chivers Press
in English
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Agnes Grey (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
April 1, 1998, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Paperback in English
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Agnes Grey.
January 1, 1996, Manesse-Verlag
Hardcover in German
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Agnes Grey
1988, Penguin Group
in English
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Agnes Grey.
1959, Oxford U.P.
in English
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Agnes Grey
1924, J.Grant
in English
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Agnes Grey.
1911, J Grant
in English - Thornton Edition.
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Agnes Grey (World's Classics)
December 1907, Oxford University Press
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Agnes Grey
1905, J. Grant
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Agnes Grey: a novel
1847, Thomas Cautley Newby
in English

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The novels of Sisters Bronte

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