by Anne Brontë · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621082
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Agnes Grey is a novel by Anne Brontë that tells the story of a young woman who decides to work as a governess to help her family after a bad investment. Through her experience, the novel offers a personal perspective on the situation of unmarried, educated women in Victorian society, addressing themes such as moral behavior, individual responsibility, and integrity. The protagonist faces the difficulties and humiliations of her work, as well as class snobbery, in an era when being a governess was one of the few respectable jobs for a single woman.
Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet. A member of the Brontë literary family, she was the younger sister of Charlotte, Emily, and Branwell. Anne is known for her 1847 novel Agnes Grey and for her 1848 novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first feminist novels.
