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Agnes Grey (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Brontė, Anne

 
9780199536634: Agnes Grey (Oxford World's Classics)

Synopsis

Drawing directly on her own unhappy experiences, Anne Brontė's first-person narrative describes the almost unbelievable pressures endured by nineteenth-century governesses - the isolation, the frustration, and the insensitive and sometimes cruel treatment meted out by employers and their families. Distinguished by its sharp, often ironic observation of middle-class social behaviour, this deeply personal novel also touches on religious belief, moral responsibility, and individual integrity and its survival. Using the text of the definitive Clarendon edition, this volume also incorporates Anne Brontė's previously unpublished manuscript revisions.

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Review

The one story in English literature in which style, characters and subject are in perfect keeping --George Moore

Book Description

The lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Brontė

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