Journal Entry 1 by LadyIndigo from Orange, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, February 09, 2008

Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë - it was her 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"

The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era – the role of governess to the children of the wealthy.

In working with two different families (the Bloomfields and the Murrays), she comes to learn about the troubles that face a young woman who must try to rein in unruly, spoiled children for a living, and about the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values.

 

Journal Entry 2 by LadyIndigo from Orange, New South Wales Australia on Friday, February 15, 2008

chosen for the winner of bethieb's sweepstakes winner,
as she has this book on her wishlist

~ enjoy

;-) 

Journal Entry 3 by Gahan from Ziano Piacentino, Emilia Romagna Italy on Saturday, March 01, 2008

This book was on my wishlist. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you also for the nice bookmarks and card. 

Journal Entry 4 by Gahan at Ziano Piacentino, Emilia Romagna Italy on Wednesday, January 19, 2011

This book was on my wishlist because I was curious about it.
I read both "Wuthering Heights" and "Jane Eyre" more than once in the past years, and I loved both very much. So I wanted to have an opinion also on Anne's novel.
"Agnes Grey" is less known compared with "Wuthering Heights" and "Jane Eyre", it is less studied in school beacause it is inferior in quality. The prose does not reach the level of Emily or Charlotte masterpieces, the story is too plain, the characters too predictable.
However it is interesting in some ways, because is very much autobiographical and gives an overview of a governess' life back in the 19th century.