Name: Agnes Grey
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Author: Brontë, Anne ; Ellis, Samantha
ISBN: 9781784872397

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anne Brontë

Introduction by

Samantha Ellis

Publisher

Vintage Classics

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781784872397

Edition No.

Synopsis "Agnes Grey"

When Agnes's father loses the family savings, young Agnes determines to make her own living--as a governess. Working for the Bloomfields, her enthusiasm is soon dampened by isolation and the cruelty of the children in her charge. Agnes hopes for better in her second job, but when the scheming elder daughter Rosalie makes designs on Agnes's new friend, the kind curate Mr. Weston, she feels herself silenced and sidelined. Becoming a governess is one thing, becoming invisible is quite another.

Anne Brontë

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Anne Brönte was the youngest of the Brontë sisters. Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, she has gone down in literary history despite her short life and with only two novels written, which she published under the pseudonym Acton Bell. As a teenager, along with her sister Emily, she created the imaginary kingdom of Gondal, about which they both wrote stories and poems. At 19, she started working as a governess, but soon felt frustrated by her inability to properly educate what she saw as an unruly and spoiled youth. This experience helped shape her first novel, "Agnes Grey". The warm reception of this work allowed the appearance of her second and last novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", the following year. It tells the story of the arrival of a woman, seemingly a widow, and her young son to an old mansion, an event that triggers all kinds of reactions in the neighborhood. This novel was deemed immoral by her contemporaries due to the harshness of certain passages. Finally, Anne died of tuberculosis at the young age of 29.

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