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Agnes Grey

by Anne Bronte
Barbara A. Suess
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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 Brontë’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, “Brontë provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting.”
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Series: Modern Library Classics Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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  • ISBN: 9780307430595
  • Release date: December 18, 2007

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  • ISBN: 9780307430595
  • Release date: December 18, 2007

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  • ISBN: 9780307430595
  • File size: 437 KB
  • Release date: December 18, 2007

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subjects

Classic Literature Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:710
Text Difficulty:3

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 Brontë’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, “Brontë provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting.”
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature Historical Fiction