TITLE: Agnes Grey AUTHOR: Anne Brontë DATE PUBLISHED: 2004 [First Published 1847] ___________________ DESCRIPTION: Agnes Grey is the touching story of a young girl who decides to enter the world as a governess, but whose bright illusions of acceptance, freedom...
(Original Review, 1981-02-06)I read "Agnes Grey" after a visit to the Mosteiros dos Jerónimos, supposing I ought to try the lesser known sister after reading so much of Charlotte's work and of course “Wuthering Heights.” What a wonderful surprise. Anne had me at "...she would rather live in a cottag...
I have an affinity with the Bronte sisters, though I wouldn’t be able to begin to say why. I adore Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, but I have never read any of the other books produced by the siblings. Why, I could not begin to say. I even live and work in the same county that they lived and died in. ...
Countering all of the romanticism of the position popularized by her sister, and showing the quiet humiliation faced by the marginalized figures in other works, 'Agnes Grey' reveals the true lot of the governess. Agnes is a bright woman who is eager to do her part to support her family after they fa...
I really enjoyed this book. Similar in style to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the book tells of Agnes Grey's journey into adulthood, specifically her struggles as a governess. Beautifully-written, this book was a very good read. I really enjoyed Bronte's imagery. It is heavy on the religious tones, ...
This is Anne's first novel and it's a lesser work than the subsequent Tenant of Wildfell Hall but it shows some similarities; it is most powerful when tackling social issues of autobiographical concern to the author; the protagonist is a bit self-righteous; it never suffers the dullness that afflict...
Agnes Grey is a good but not a great book. I found it to be inferior to Anne Bronte's other major work The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall and Anne is certainly not a genius unlike her more famous sisters. The book concerns the life of a young governess, who is disillusioned by her experiences in that rol...
It's probably not quite fair to Anne, but reading this calm and rational book, one cannot help comparing it to the tempestuous governess/schoolteacher stories by her sister Charlotte. I get the feeling that although both were drawing on autobiographical experience, Anne's was much less embellished (...
I set out to read this book as a "buddy read" with a friend, after we both decided that we needed to read something by Anne Brontë, having already read the famous novels of her sisters. Admittedly, I did not pay very much attention to the description of this novel, because it was the third in a thre...
This is a sweet classic. It's very simplicity precludes most of my shelves. It's interesting I haven't read much that is alike that wasn't plain bland. In an era where Gothic novels were at a prime, romantic interest with tortured souls, and torrid, tragic love-stories were the height of romance, ...
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