Agnes Grey: Illustrated Anne Bronte Author

by Anne Bronte

2021-04-11 15:42:20

Agnes Grey is a novel of Anne Brontë. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë... Read more
Agnes Grey is a novel of Anne Brontë. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman. Anne deals with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy. Agnes Grey also mimics some of the stylistic approaches of bildungsromans, employing ideas of personal growth and coming to age, but representing a character who in fact does not gain in virtue. The Irish novelist George Moore praised Agnes Grey as the most perfect prose narrative in English letters, and went so far as to compare Anne's prose to that of Jane Austen. Less

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PublisherLulu.com
Publication date April 23, 2013
ISBN9781300967576
Anne Brontë (Born in Thornton, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom January 17, 1820, Died May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. Anne's two novel...

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