Agnes Grey

The gentlest and most quietly devastating of the Brontë novels.

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About this edition

First published in 1847 under the pen name Acton Bell, Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë’s clear-eyed debut, and it lays bare the hidden life of a Victorian governess.

A clergyman’s daughter, Agnes leaves her sheltered home to earn her living teaching the spoiled children of the wealthy Bloomfield and Murray families. What she finds is casual cruelty, snobbery and loneliness, endured with a moral steadiness that never curdles into bitterness.

Drawn directly from Anne Brontë’s own years in service, this short, honest novel is a coming of age story, a sharp portrait of English class and manners, and a tender study of faith, patience and love quietly rewarded. Readers who cherish Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights will find here the third Brontë sister’s distinct, unsentimental voice, bound behind an original painting.

Details

• Anne Brontë (1820–1849)
• The complete 1847 novel
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 220 pages