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.""
By:
Anne Bronte Introduction by:
Barbara A. Suess Imprint: Random House Country of Publication: United States Edition: New edition Dimensions:
Height: 201mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 193g ISBN:9780812967135 ISBN 10: 0812967135 Series:Modern Library Classics Pages: 240 Publication Date:01 July 2003 Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for Agnes Grey
The one story in English literature in which style, characters and subject are in perfect keeping. --George Moore The one story in English literature in which style, characters and subject are in perfect keeping. George Moore