Agnes Grey |
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Author:
| Brontë, Anne |
ISBN: | 978-1-5394-5141-9 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2016 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $10.99 |
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Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Bront#65533;. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Bront#65533;'s own experiences in the field. It was Bront#65533;'s 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...
More DescriptionAgnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Bront#65533;. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Bront#65533;'s own experiences in the field. It was Bront#65533;'s 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."Anne Bront#65533; (17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bront#65533; literary family. The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Bront#65533; lived most of her life with her family at the remote village of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of nineteen, she left Haworth working as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846) and in short succession she wrote two novels: Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847; her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall appeared in 1848. Anne's creative life was cut short with her death of pulmonary tuberculosis when she was only twenty-nine years old. Anne Bront#65533; is often overshadowed by her more famous sisters, Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights. Anne's two novels, written in a sharp and ironic style, are completely different from the romanticism followed by her sisters. She wrote in a realistic, rather than a romantic style. Her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature.