Agnes Grey: With a Memoir of Her Sisters by Charlotte Bronte - Softcover

Brontė, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140621083 ISBN 13: 9780140621082

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

When her family becomes impoverished after a disasterous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess. This is a personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women in Victorian society. Agnes Grey is undoubtedtedly a deeply personal novel, in which Anne Bronte views on the 'contemporary' issue of the treatment of governesses, as well as her passionate religious sympathies, find very deliberate expression; but she also touches on issues of moral behaviour, moral responsibility, and individual integrity and its survival.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Brontė was born in 1820, the youngest of the Brontė 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140621083
• ISBN 13: 9780140621082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320