Agnes Grey

Drawing from experience, Anne Bronte wrote her first novel to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women. They were driven to take up the only career open to them: that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children, and then disdained in t [...]
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Drawing from experience, Anne Bronte wrote her first novel to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women. They were driven to take up the only career open to them: that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children, and then disdained in the superior Murray household, Bronte gives a compelling portrait of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism.