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Anne Brontë's first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day. In writing the novel, Brontë drew on her own experiences, and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victorian governess, often stranded far from home, and treated with little respect by her employers, yet expected to control and educate her young charges. Agnes Grey looks at childhood from nursery to adolescence, and it also charts the frustrations of romantic love, as Agnes starts to nurse warmer feelings towards the local curate, Mr. Weston. Sally Shuttleworth's fascinating introduction considers the book's fictional and narrative qualities, its relationship with Victorian child-rearing and the responsibilities of parents, and the changing attitudes to the book influenced by modern concerns for children's rights. The new edition includes a revised and updated bibliography as well as revised notes drawing on the latest critical material.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made avail

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Author

Robert Inglesfield and Hilda Marsden

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191612565

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (3,980 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14