by Anne Bronte · Wordsworth Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853262166
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«Agnes Grey» is the novel by Anne Brontë published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Anne Brontë narrates the experience of Agnes Grey, a young woman employed as a governess in wealthy households. Based on the author's own experiences, the novel denounces the loneliness, intellectual isolation and emotional precariousness of governesses in Victorian England, and addresses social class, oppression and the search for independence.
Work originally published in 1847. This revised edition is complete and unabridged, with an introduction and notes by Kathryn White.
For readers of British classics and nineteenth-century literature interested in women's lives and social criticism.
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.
