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When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes's enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family; the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte's first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society.
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ALL TRUE HISTORIES CONTAIN instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
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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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- Title Agnes Grey
- Author Anne Bronte; Angeline Goreau (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 12th printing
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London
- Date January 3, 1989
- ISBN 9780140432107 / 0140432108
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 5.18 x 0.65 in (19.86 x 13.16 x 1.65 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1110
- Library of Congress subjects Autobiographical fiction, Man-woman relationships
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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