num_pages: 211
description: Drawing directly on her own unhappy experiences, Anne Bront e's first-person narrative describes the almost unbelievable pressures endured by nineteenth-century governesses - the isolation, the frustration, and the insensitive and sometimes cruel treatment meted out by employers and their families.
language: English
title: Agnes Grey
titlecomplete: Agnes Grey
characters: Rosalie Murray, Agnes Grey, Mary Grey, Agnes Grey, Rosalie Murray, Matilda Murray, Edward Weston, Nancy Brown, Matilda Murray, Mary Grey, Nancy Brown, Edward Weston
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Classic Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 67487
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Oxford University Press