Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

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Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century.
This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral evolution of English society during the last century.
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Product details

  • Paperback | 192 pages
  • 129 x 198 x 10mm | 125g
  • Herts, United Kingdom
  • English
  • New edition
  • New edition
  • 1853262161
  • 9781853262166
  • 36,403

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Agnes Grey is undoubtedtedly a deeply personal novel, in which Anne Bronte views on the 'contemporary' issue of the treatment of governesses, as well as her passionate religious sympathies, find very deliberate expression; but she also touches on issues of moral behaviour, moral responsibility, and individual integrity and its survival.
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About Anne Brontë

With a specially commissioned Introduction and Notes by Kathryn White, Assistant Curator/Librarian of the Bronte Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire
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