num_pages: 302
description: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140621082.When her family becomes impoverished after a disasterous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess. This is a personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women in Victorian society. Agnes Grey is undoubtedtedly a deeply personal novel, in which Anne Bronte views on the 'contemporary' issue of the treatment of governesses, as well as her passionate religious sympathies, find very deliberate expression; but she also touches on issues of moral behaviour, moral responsibility, and individual integrity and its survival.
language: English
title: Agnes Grey
titlecomplete: Agnes Grey
characters: Nancy Brown, Rosalie Murray, Matilda Murray, Mary Grey, Agnes Grey, Rosalie Murray, Matilda Murray, Edward Weston, Nancy Brown, Edward Weston, Agnes Grey, Mary Grey
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 67470
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Penguin