Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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"Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Brontë wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only "respectable" career open to them __that of a governess."
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I am great fan of the Brontë sisters, I hope you'll enjoy this not-so-famous semi-autobiographical novel by Anne.
Congrats, and enjoy! :)
I am great fan of the Brontë sisters, I hope you'll enjoy this not-so-famous semi-autobiographical novel by Anne.
Congrats, and enjoy! :)
Thanks Bookworm_Lady. I have read the other Bronte sisters but not this one so it’ll be interesting to see how it compares.
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Journal Entry 5 by crimson-tide at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, August 17, 2023
Arrived along with a whole bunch of friends. Thanks very much, book-a-neer.
I read this one a couple of years ago as an audiobook. It’s on the 1001 books list but I’m not entirely sure why. It was OK but pretty pedestrian, and I thought not as good as her other well known novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (also on the 1001 list).
Will try to find it a new reader.
Agnes Grey is forced by the poverty ensuing on her father's death to seek work as a governess, the only employment available to middle-class young women of the time. Her humiliating first position lasts only six months, but she is soon employed by the Murray family. Tormented by the coquettish Rosalie and the student tomboy Matilda, she finds her position increasingly lonely and difficult. Only Mr Weston, the poor, plain curate shows any kindness, and Rosalie seems bent on his conquest. Anne Bronte knew only too well what is was to be a governess - "your efforts baffled and set at nought by those beneath you, and unjustly censured by those above". With Agnes Grey she created an impassioned account of a role which stripped so many Victorian women of their dignity. And, reinforcing her insistence on a woman's right to personal freedom, vividly presents the natural landscape as a mirror to her heroine's inner life.
Released 5 mos ago (10/9/2023 UTC) at Balingup, Western Australia Australia
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Hitchhiker!
I know you sometimes look out for 1001 books, so hope you haven’t read this one.
I know you sometimes look out for 1001 books, so hope you haven’t read this one.
Thank you crimson-tide! A 1001 book, a book from Spain, and the Bronte that I haven't read!