Agnes Grey
$20.90
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
24 August 1988
Summary
Anne Bronte’s first novel, offering a compelling insight into the world of the Victorian governess
When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes’s enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family; the only k…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140432107 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140432108 |
| Author: | Angeline Goreau, Anne Brontë |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 24 August 1988 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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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
About The Author
Angeline Goreau
Anne Bronte was born in 1820, the youngest of the Bronte family. She was educated at home in the Yorkshire village of Howarth, and later held two positions as a governess, difficult experiences which inspired her first novel, Agnes Grey, in 1847. This was followed by The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. Anne died of tuberculosis in 1849, aged twenty-nine.
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