Agnes Grey: Anne Bronte (Macmillan Collector's Library, 197)

Agnes Grey: Anne Bronte (Macmillan Collector's Library, 197)

by Anne Brontë (Author), Anne Brontë (Author), Anne Brontë (Author), Juliet Barker (Introduction)

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Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte exposes the isolated world of a nineteenth-century governess in her debut novel, Agnes Grey. This edition is introduced by historian and biographer Juliet Barker.

When Agnes Grey's family falls on hard times she insists on being allowed to find work as a governess, but her idealistic spirit is challenged in her first position with the unruly Bloomfield children and their callous parents. She then moves on to work for the even wealthier Murray family, whose scheming daughters jeopardize the only bright spot in Agnes's life, Edward Weston.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Published: 02 May 2019

ISBN 10: 1509890009
ISBN 13: 9781509890002

Media Reviews
The most perfect prose narrative in English letters -- George Moore
Anne provided her heroine with a hero who was actually nice to women. This still feels revolutionary * Guardian *
A compelling Victorian take on the iniquities of the wealth gap * Telegraph *
For too long [Anne] has been undervalued as the third-best Bronte. But her fiction, exploring the lamentably still-current themes of addiction and domestic violence and the abuse of vulnerable women working away from home, has a vigour and bracing satirical intelligence which places her in the first rank of what is arguably the greatest ever generation of novelists in English -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Author Bio
Anne Bronte was born in Yorkshire in 1820. She was the youngest of six children and the sister of fellow novelists Charlotte and Emily, the authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights respectively. Her mother died when she was a baby and she was raised by her aunt and her father, the Reverend Patrick Bronte. Anne worked as a governess before returning home to Haworth where she and her sisters published poems under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. She published her first novel, Agnes Grey, in 1847, followed by The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. She died from tuberculosis in 1849.