Agnes Grey [electronic resource]
Anne Brontë2011
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Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Brontë wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only "respectable" career open to them—that of a governess. Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Brontë wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only "respectable" career open to them—that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children and then disdained in the superior Murray household, Agnes tells a story that is a compelling inside view of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism.
Main title:
Agnes Grey [electronic resource] / Anne Brontë
Author:
Anne Brontë, AuthorFox, Emilia, 1974-, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : AudioGO, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Anne Brontë was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, on January 17, 1820. Anne and her sisters, Charlotte and Emily, grew up in an isolated parsonage after their mother's death. Eventually, financial troubles forced Anne to work as a governess, which became the subject of her first novel, Agnes Grey. Anne's second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was published in 1848. She died of tuberculosis the following year.
ISBN:
9780792783091
Language:
English
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BRN:
2759981
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