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Agnes Grey
Author(s): Anne Brontë (Author)
- Publisher: Independently published
- Publication Date: 6 Jun. 2021
- Language: English
- Print length: 108 pages
- ISBN-10: B096M1KZ6F
- ISBN-13: 9798515955342
Book Description
A new edition of Anne Brontë‘s 1847 debut novel, Agnes Grey. The novel is centered on the titular Agnes Grey, a governess working within different families in the English gentry, largely based on Anne Brontë’s own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey portrays on the precariousness of the position of a governess for a young woman and the effects on her future prospects.
Anne Brontë (1820 – 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest of the famed Brontë sisters whose novels are considered to be classics of English literature. Born into the Brontë family, Anne was the youngest of the four sibling who reached adulthood and first reached literary prominence publishing a collection of poetry alongside the other Brontë Sisters using the pseudonym Acton Bell in 1846. Anne’s first novel, Agnes Grey, was published in 1847 alongside her sister’s novel Wuthering Heights. Her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was published in 1848. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is thought to be one of the first feminist novels and among the greatest – and most underrated and overlooked – novels of the 19th century. Anne died at age 29, likely of tuberculosis, cutting short an incredibly promising career that some scholars suspect, given the glints of burgeoning genius in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, might have eventually surpassed her more famous sisters.
