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Paperback, 224 pages Published 1847 Barnes & Noble Classics Series (2005) Introduction by: Fred Schwarzbach Written when women—and workers generally—had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess’s life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under the snobbery and sadism of the selfish, self-indulgent upper-class adults and the shrieking insolence of their spoiled children. Worse, the unique social and economic position of a governess—“beneath” her employers but “above” their servants—condemns her to a life of loneliness. Less celebrated than her older sisters Charlotte and Emily, Anne Bronte was also less interested in spinning wildly symbolic, romantic tales and more determined to draw realistic images of conditions in Victorian England that need changing. While Charlotte’s Jane Eyre features a governess who eventually and improbably marries her employer, Agnes Grey deals wi

Who reads Agnes Grey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)?

Author

Anne Brontė

Publisher

Barnes & Noble Classics

Published

1847

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191612565

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (3,996 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14