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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.
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Anne Brontë (1820-49) was the youngest of the Brontë sisters. The two novels written in her brief career, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and a volume of poetry written with her sisters, are established classics of the Victorian period.
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- PublisherNorth Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1582879168
- ISBN 13 9781582879161
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages329
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