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Agnes Grey Paperback - 2003
by Bronte, Anne
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Details
- Title Agnes Grey
- Author Bronte, Anne
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0812967135I5N10
- ISBN 9780812967135 / 0812967135
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.24 x 0.51 in (20.57 x 13.31 x 1.30 cm)
- Reading level 1110
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects England, Autobiographical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002038022
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
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 kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte's first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society.
From the publisher
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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."
