Agnes Grey (Modern Library Classics)

Bronte, Anne

ISBN 10: 0812967135 / ISBN 13: 9780812967135

Editore: Modern Library, 2003

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Riassunto:

Concerned for her family’s financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Brontë’s own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure. As Barbara A. Suess writes in her Introduction, “Brontë provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting.”

Informazioni sull?autore: Barbara A. Suess, assistant professor of English at William Patterson University, is the co-editor of New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Brontë and the author of Progress and Identity in the Plays of W. B. Yeats, 1892–1907.

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Titolo: Agnes Grey (Modern Library Classics)
Casa editrice: Modern Library
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good