Agnes Grey - Penguin Classics Author:Anne Bronte, Angeline Goreau Written when women -- and workers generally -- had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprep... more »ared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under the snobbery and sadism of the selfish, self-indulgent upper-class adults and the shrieking insolence of their spoiled children. Worse, the unique social and economic position of a governess -- "beneath" her employers but "above" their servants -- condemns her to a life of loneliness.« less
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Ellen H. (eeeee) reviewed Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics) on
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Really great novel about an English governess. Interesting to read this alongside Jane Eyre - similar subject matter but the two sisters treat things very differently.