While her sisters may have started in the realm of Gothic romance, Anne Bronte gave us realism and if you dreamed once being a governess was awesome from reading Jane Eyre, Anne's Agnes Grey puts that notice to bed once and for all, with the question would have anyone have liked to have been a gover...
While her sisters may have started in the realm of Gothic romance, Anne Bronte gave us realism and if you dreamed once being a governess was awesome from reading Jane Eyre, Anne's Agnes Grey puts that notice to bed once and for all, with the question would have anyone have liked to have been a gover...
*2015 Reading Challenge*: A book written by an author with your same initialsMe faltan dos iniciales más para completar pero...bue...me voy a volver loca encontrando un autor con mis cuatro iniciales
This gentle novel makes sharp observations on an unsatisfactory state of affairs, by which both moral and intellectual merit must live on the margins of a society dominated by extraordinary wealth, whose values are trite and often vicious. The novel tells us something about our past and could perhap...
I'm not really sure why I even bothered downloading this book. I had already read Anne Brontë's more famous work The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, so that should have been enough, right? Whatever, I read this one as well, and am glad I did so. It's probably not so good as her other work, but is supremely...
When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes’s enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloo...
Book 2/2014. Cross-posted from my wordpress blog: Agnes Grey was published in 1847. This was an exceptionally good year for the Brontes – 1847 saw the publication of Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, which combined to form a trifecta of Bronte awesomeness, and includes the two most...
The audiobook I listened to was from LibriVox here. There is also a dramatic reading. I don't like the dramatic readings a a rule, but I know others do. The ending seemed a little sudden, although it was what I expected from this novel: a happy ending. I had expected Agnes to have more trouble w...
Agnes Grey by the other Brontë sister, Anne, is a quiet novel, as quiet as are its title-giving heroine and its writer who put much of her own experience as a governess in two families and of her personality into it. In fact, there are many parallels between the novel and Anne Brontë’s life. From th...
I enjoyed the love story aspect of this book. I found myself getting excited when Mr. Weston would come into the picture and sad when he disappeared. Very sweet! p. 268
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