Agnes Grey

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 Bront '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, "Bront 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
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 04/08/2003
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780812967135
ISBN10: 0812967135
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General

About the Author
Barbara A. Suess, assistant professor of English at William Patterson University, is the co-editor of New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Brontë and the author of Progress and Identity in the Plays of W. B. Yeats, 1892-1907.