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Availability:In StockContributor:Anne Bronte, Barbara A. Suess (Introduction by)Series:Modern Library ClassicsPublish date:2003-04-08Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780812967135ISBN-10:812967135UPC:9780812967135Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, HistoricalSize:8.10 x 5.24 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SC3VRFYC3Q
Concerned for her family's financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Bront�'s own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure. As Barbara A. Suess writes in her Introduction, "Bront� provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780812967135ISBN-10:812967135UPC:9780812967135Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, HistoricalSize:8.10 x 5.24 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SC3VRFYC3Q
Barbara A. Suess, assistant professor of English at William Patterson University, is the co-editor of New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bront? and the author of Progress and Identity in the Plays of W. B. Yeats, 1892-1907.
Publisher: Modern Library

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