Agnes Grey
Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë exposes the isolated world of a nineteenth-century governess in her debut novel, Agnes Grey.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by historian and biographer, Juliet Barker.

Agnes Grey is the youngest daughter of a clergyman. When the family falls on hard times, she insists on finding work as a governess in order to help her family and prove to them that she’s no longer a child. But her idealistic spirit is tested in her first position with the Bloomfield family and their unruly and spoilt children. Next she works for the even wealthier Murray family, whose scheming daughter Rosalie threatens to jeopardize the only bright spot in Agnes’s life: the young curate Edward Weston.

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Agnes Grey
Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë exposes the isolated world of a nineteenth-century governess in her debut novel, Agnes Grey.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by historian and biographer, Juliet Barker.

Agnes Grey is the youngest daughter of a clergyman. When the family falls on hard times, she insists on finding work as a governess in order to help her family and prove to them that she’s no longer a child. But her idealistic spirit is tested in her first position with the Bloomfield family and their unruly and spoilt children. Next she works for the even wealthier Murray family, whose scheming daughter Rosalie threatens to jeopardize the only bright spot in Agnes’s life: the young curate Edward Weston.

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Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë exposes the isolated world of a nineteenth-century governess in her debut novel, Agnes Grey.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by historian and biographer, Juliet Barker.

Agnes Grey is the youngest daughter of a clergyman. When the family falls on hard times, she insists on finding work as a governess in order to help her family and prove to them that she’s no longer a child. But her idealistic spirit is tested in her first position with the Bloomfield family and their unruly and spoilt children. Next she works for the even wealthier Murray family, whose scheming daughter Rosalie threatens to jeopardize the only bright spot in Agnes’s life: the young curate Edward Weston.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781509890002
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Publication date: 05/07/2019
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 3.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Robert Inglesfield is Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick.
Hilda Marsden is a freelance scholar and authority on the Brontës.
Sally Shuttleworth is Head of the Humanities Division and Professor of English at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Anne Brontë: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Agnes Grey

Appendix A: Other Writings by and about Anne Brontë
  • 1. From Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey (letter, 15 April 1839)
  • 2. From Anne Brontë, Diary Paper (30 July 1841)
  • 3. From Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey (letter, 7 August 1841)
  • 4. From Anne Brontë, Diary Paper (31 July 1845)
  • 5. Anne Brontë, “The Bluebell” (22 August 1840)
  • 6. Acton Bell [Anne Brontë], “Appeal” (28 August 1840)
  • 7. Anne Brontë, “Lines Written at [Thorp] Green” (19 August 1841)
  • 8. Acton Bell [Anne Brontë], “Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day” (30 December 1842)
  • 9. From Ellen Nussey, “Reminiscences of Charlotte Brontë” (1871)
  • 10. From Currer Bell [Charlotte Brontë], “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell” (1850)
Appendix B: Contemporary and Early Reviews and Responses
  • 1. From Spectator (18 December 1847)
  • 2. From Henry F. Chorley, Athenaeum (25 December 1847)
  • 3. From Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper (15 January 1848)
  • 4. From New Monthly Magazine (January 1848)
  • 5. From Atlas (22 January 1848)
  • 6. From Portland [Maine] Transcript (5 January 1850)
  • 7. From Graham’s Magazine [Philadelphia] (1 February 1850)
  • 8. From W.C. Roscoe, “Miss Brontë,” National Review (July 1857)
  • 9. From Mary Augusta Ward, “Introduction,” The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1900)
  • 10. From George Moore, Conversations in Ebury Street (1910)
Appendix C: The Governess in Society
  • 1. Maria Smith Abdy, “A Governess Wanted,” Metropolitan Magazine (May 1836)
  • 2. From George Stephen, The Guide to Service: The Governess (1844)
  • 3. From “Hints on the Modern Governess System,” Fraser’s Magazine (November 1844)
Appendix D: Humane Treatment of Animals
  • 1. From Isaac Watts, A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (1725)
  • 2. From Thomas Erskine, Speech … On … Preventing … Cruelty to Animals (1809)
  • 3. From “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,” Times (17 June 1824)
  • 4. From Sarah Burdett, The Rights of Animals (1839)
  • 5. From Charlotte Elizabeth [Tonna], Kindness to Animals (c. 1845)
  • 6. C.S., “The Lost Nestlings,” A Mother’s Lessons in Kindness to Animals (c. 1862)

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