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Agnes Grey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Brontë, Anne & Inglesfield, Robert & Marsden, Hilda is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Agnes Grey, by Anne Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.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

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Author
Brontë, Anne & Inglesfield, Robert & Marsden, Hilda
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Published
1847
Language
EN
ISBN
9781411431720
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
Rating
3.65 / 5 (21 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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