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Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction
Agnes Grey, A Novel is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry.Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the youngest me ...Show more
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Category: Fiction
'How delightful it would be to be a governess!' When the young Agnes Grey takes up her first post as governess she is full of hope; she believes she only has to remember 'myself at their age' to win her pupils' love and trust. Instead she finds the young children she has to deal with completely unmanage ...Show more
Agnes Grey by ANNE BRONTE
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poign ...Show more
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics
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 ...Show more
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
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Agnes Grey: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Anne Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her own family and so sets out to prove herself by seeking employment as a governess. Soon, however, her idealistic notions regarding the education and care of her wards are dashed as she battles to control the wi ...Show more
Agnes Grey (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anne Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.When Agnes Grey's family falls on hard times she insists on being allowed to find work as a governess, ...Show more
Agnes Grey/The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction
"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title. With a child but no husba ...Show more
Bronte Classics: Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Category: Classic Fiction
First published in 1848, a novel in which a woman flees from a disastrous marriage with her child to a desolate moorland mansion. It portrays one woman's struggle for independence at a time when law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property.
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones. Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which often reflected the landscape of her Yorkshire ho ...Show more
The Bronte Sisters: The Complete Novels by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
Category: Fiction
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are three of the most remarkable novelists and poets of the nineteenth century. Charlotte was the most prolific of the three: "Jane Eyre", the story of a governess' triumph over her lowly station in life; "Shirley", set in Yorkshire at the time of the Luddite riots at th ...Show more
The Bronte Sisters Three Novels (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition): Jane Eyre - Wuthering Heights - Agnes Grey by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
Category: Children's | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
The most cherished novel from each of England's talented sisters, in one gorgeously packaged volume. The Brontë family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibiliti ...Show more