Synopsis
Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë exposes the isolated world of a nineteenth-century governess in her debut novel, Agnes Grey.
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Details
02 May 2019256 pages
9781509890002Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
The most perfect prose narrative in English lettersGeorge Moore
Anne provided her heroine with a hero who was actually nice to women. This still feels revolutionaryGuardian
A compelling Victorian take on the iniquities of the wealth gapTelegraph
For too long [Anne] has been undervalued as the third-best Brontë. But her fiction, exploring the lamentably still-current themes of addiction and domestic violence and the abuse of vulnerable women working away from home, has a vigour and bracing satirical intelligence which places her in the first rank of what is arguably the greatest ever generation of novelists in EnglishLucy Hughes-Hallett
