At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect a young woman. Agnes was the daughter of a minister whose family was in financial difficulty. She has only a few choices for employment. Agnes experiences the difficulty of reining in spoiled children and how wealth can corrupt morals.

Agnes Grey is the touching tale of a young lady who decides to enter the world as a governess. However whose vibrant illusions of reputation, freedom, and friendship are steadily destroyed.Drawing on her personal experience, Anne Brontë charts the development of mild Agnes and sympathetically depicts the harsh treatment she gets alongside the way. Leaving her idyllic domestic and close-knit circle of relatives, Agnes arrives on the Bloomfield’s residence, internal whose partitions ...

Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several families. Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggested the novel was largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.

A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and servant. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham, a young farmer, discovers her dark secrets. In her diary, Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol, and the world of de...

Written by Anne Bronte, the youngest of the famous Bronte sisters, this classic romantic novel has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 160 years. Now you can follow this classic story of romance tainted with abuse, considered one of the worlds first feminist novels.

Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontësuggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of gov...

Agnes Grey is the story of a young woman who is forced by poverty to work as a governess for wealthy families while attempting to find love and happiness of her own. Set in early Victorian England, and based on Anne Bronte’s own experiences, the novel explores Agnes’s struggles with her cruel, uncaring employers, and a society that does not value a woman of her low position. Though less well known than the novels of her sisters, Emily and Charlotte, Anne’s first book has been prai...

Part of Alma Evergreen series, this edition contains a wealth of material, ideal for students. An instant success, the first edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sold out in weeks, yet was mired in controversy for what many contemporary critics viewed as its shocking subject matter and fierce defence of women's rights.

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Agnes Grey’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of The Brontes’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Brontes includes original annotations and illustrations relating...

Classic novel by the third Bronte sister. According to Wikipedia: "Anne Bronte ( 1820 - 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest of the Bronte literary family. She used the pen name Acton Bell."

This volume contains the following complete works by the Brontës, with some additional commentary by Theo. Wolfe, Frederika Macdonald, and May Sinclair. Many of the Brontë’s works were originally published under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, a whimsy that they kept long after the true names of the authors became known..By Anne Brontë:Agnes GreyThe Tenant of Wildfell HallBy Charlotte Brontë:Jane EyreThe Profes...

Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Brontë's own experiences in the field. It was Brontë's first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.The Irish novelist George Moore praised Agnes Grey as "the most perfect prose narrative in English letters."-- Excerpted ...