Agnes Grey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517298241)

Concerned for her family's financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Bronte's own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure. As Barbara A. Suess writes in her Introduction, "Bronte provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting."

Author: Anne Bronte
ISBN-10: 1517298245
ISBN-13: 9781517298241
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2015
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.57d