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Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë

FormatEbook
Published1996
Words67,857
LanguageEnglish
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Note: the supplied publication date (1996) is incorrect — *Agnes Grey* was first published in 1847, but this is well-established general knowledge about the work, so I'll use it rather than the erroneous date provided. *Agnes Grey* is a semi-autobiographical novel by Anne Brontë following a clergyman's daughter who takes work as a governess and endures the hardships of that position in Victorian England. Readers interested in 19th-century social realism, women's working lives, or the Brontë f
Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet. A member of the Brontë literary family, she was the younger sister of Charlotte, Emily, and Branwell. Anne is known for her 1847 novel Agnes Grey and for her 1848 novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first feminist novels.

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