Agnes Grey (Vintage Classics)
Author(s): Anne Brontë; Samantha Ellis (Introduction by)
Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Brontë's own experiences in the field. It was Brontë's first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.The Irish novelist George Moore praised Agnes Grey as "the most perfect prose narrative in English letters.
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"Agnes Grey is the most perfect prose narrative of English letters... Simple and beautiful... The only story in English literature in which style, characters, and subject are in perfect keeping" -- George Moore "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 "Bronte depicts in detail the isolation inherent in a governess's life, as an educated - but by necessity not too educated - woman trapped in an awkward halfway world between the classes" Guardian
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 31 December 2016
- : 01 March 2017
- : books
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- : Anne Brontë; Samantha Ellis (Introduction by)
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