This edition also includes Charlotte Brontë's memoir of her sisters, the Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë's first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society. But Agnes's enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. 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. my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt' 'The name of governess, I soon found, was a mere mockery.
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