Agnes Grey

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