ANNE BRONTE, the youngest and most enigmatic of the Bronte sisters, remains a best-selling author nearly two centuries after her death. The brilliance of her two novels - Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - and her poetry belies the quiet, yet courageous girl who often lived in the shadows [...]
"Agnes Grey" is the story of its title character who takes up a position as a governess. Anne Bronte's first novel was based on her own experiences as a governess and depicts the loneliness and isolation of the position. Agnes Grey as governess of the Bloomfield and Murray households experiences har[...]
Anne Bronte s heart-breaking tale of a woman's struggle for independence. Helen "Graham" has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Exiled to the desolate moorland mansion, she adopts an assumed name and earns her living as a painter. This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's[...]
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[...]
Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. The less talented Bronte, the other Bronte.[...]
This eBook features the unabridged text of 'Agnes Grey' from the bestselling edition of 'The Complete Works of The Brontes'. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatti[...]
This eBook features the unabridged text of 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' from the bestselling edition of 'The Complete Works of The Brontes'. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with [...]
The trials Anne Bront experienced in her lifetime left her with a deep interest in the psychology of suffering. This study, which considers both her novels and her poetry, focuses on the exploration of suffering in her work by examining her anatomisation of the trials her characters face and the st[...]
"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title. With a child but no h[...]
Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and p[...]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious 'tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Hele[...]
Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is by Kathryn White, an established expert on the Bronte family and former Librarian of Th[...]
The Bronte sisters are among the most beloved writers of all time, best known for their classic nineteenth-century novels "Jane Eyre" (Charlotte), "Wuthering Heights" (Emily), and "Agnes Grey" (Anne). In this sometimes heartbreaking young adult biography, Catherine Reef explores the turbulent lives [...]