... can possibly imagine what they were: hardly even if he has known what it is to awake some morning, and find himself in Port Nelson, in New Zealand, with a world of waters between himself and all that knew him.
Fraser's Magazine (to which the Brontë family subscribed) ran an influential article, 'Hints on the Modern Governess System', in 1844 which set the tone of much that was to follow. The Tory magazine offered a class-based analysis which ...
Agnes Grey
The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry.
... menschlichen Daseins und ein modernes Gegenbild des Dante'schen Abstiegs ins Inferno. – Mit einer kompakten Biographie des Autors. Titel jetzt kaufen und lesen Die großen Romane der Schwestern Brontë Brontë, Anne 9783159615417 1500.
INTRODUCTION In a letter to her close friend Ellen Nussey, who was contemplating being a governess, ... short period of being a governess, whilst Anne was to find a further situation, in around May 1840, with the Robinson family at ...
With a specially commissioned Introduction and Notes by Kathryn White, Assistant Curator/Librarian of the Bront Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire.
These novels have become classics not only by dint of the subtle and ironic force of Anne Brontë's prose but because of the passionate indictments of social injustice that animate them."--Publisher's website.
Drawn from Brontë's own troubled life, this novel exposes the hardships of a governess's world and offers a rare opportunity to hear the voice of a 19th-century working woman.
Agnes Grey: Roman
Élevée au sein d'une famille unie mais pauvre - qui n'est pas sans rappeler la fratrie Brontë -, Agnès Grey, 18 ans, fille d'un pasteur d'un village du nord de l'Angleterre, décide de tenter sa chance dans le monde en se faisant ...
About Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850.[1] The novel follows ...
Agnes Grey: A Novel by Acton Bell / Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Bronte, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850.
Drawing directly on her own experiences, Anne Brontë describes the isolation and dark ambiguity of the governes's life as lived by her fictional heroine Agnes Grey. Mature, insightful, and edged...
“The Critique of the Priest in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey.” Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society, vol. 37, no. 4, November 2012, pp. 345–51. Lecaros, Cecilia Wadsö. “'Lessons in the Art of Instruction': Education in Theory ...
Like Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre was also about a plain heroine, who was also a governess, and who also spoke directly to the reader. Later, a story would spring up about Charlotte telling her sisters that she was going to break new ground ...
Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850.
This edition also includes Charlotte Brontë’s memoir of her sisters, theBiographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell.
Drawing directly on her own experiences, Anne Brontë describes the isolation and dark ambiguity of the governes's life as lived by her fictional heroine Agnes Grey. Mature, insightful, and edged...
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Agnes Grey is both modern and readable. Agnes Grey is loosely inspired by the trials and tribulations of author Anne Brontë.