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English
Random House
01 July 2003
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.""
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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
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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


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