Agnes Grey: A Governess Among the Cruel Rich
Anne Brontë
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, Johannes Bosboom and Eduard Hau. A clergyman's daughter takes work as a governess in two households and finds that her employers regard her as furniture. Anne Brontë had done the job for five years and wrote it down exactly; George Moore called it the most perfect prose narrative in English literature, which is high, but the plainness is the point. Fifty-nine plates of painting from 1841 to 1910, among them James Tissot and Marianne North, gather the drawing rooms, salons and quiet corners where a governess is seen and not heard.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, Johannes Bosboom and Eduard Hau. A clergyman's daughter takes work as a governess in two households and finds that her employers regard her as furniture. Anne Brontë had done the job for five years and wrote it down exactl...
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Anne Brontë (1820-1849) was an English novelist and poet born in Thornton, Yorkshire, the youngest of the Brontë sisters. She worked as a governess for five years, the experience behind her first novel, and died of tuberculosis at twenty-nine. Her works are Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) was an English novelist and poet born in Thornton, Yorkshire, the youngest of the Brontë sisters. She worked as a governess for five years, the experience behind her first novel, and died of tuberculosis at twenty-nine. Her works are Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell H...
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