Agnes Grey
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2003
Summary
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 for…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812967135 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812967135 |
| Author: | Anne Bronte, Barbara A. Suess |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2003 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Modern Library 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
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Anne Bronte
Barbara A. Suess, assistant professor of English at William Patterson University, is the co-editor of New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte and the author of Progress and Identity in the Plays of W. B. Yeats, 1892-1907.
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