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"Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Brontë wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only 'respectable' career open to them--that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children and then disdained in the superior Murray household, Agnes tells a story that is a compelling inside view of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism."
"Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Brontë wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only 'respectable' career open to them--that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children and then disdained in the superior Murray household, Agnes tells a story that is a compelling inside view of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism."@en
"Drawing directly on her own experiences, Anne Brontë describes the isolation and dark ambiguity of the governess's life as lived by her fictional heroine Agnes Grey."
"Drawing directly on her own experiences, Anne Brontë describes the isolation and dark ambiguity of the governess's life as lived by her fictional heroine Agnes Grey."@en
"Explores the social life of a young nineteenth-century English woman."
"Agnes Grey is Anne Bronte's first novel, centering around a rector's daughter working as a governess. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Bronte set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess's life entailed?frustration, isolation, and the insensitive and cruel treatment suffered at the hands of employers and their families."@en
"Agnes Grey is a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess. Drawing directly from her own experiences. Bronte sets out to describe the frustration, isolation, and the insensitive and cruel treatment on the part of employers and their families."@en
"Agnes Grey s family faces financial ruin, and she must find employment. Limited by gender and class, Agnes becomes a governess a vocation that teaches her about the corrosive power of status and wealth."@en
"The story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Bronte set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess's life involved: the frustration, the isolation, and the insensitve and cruel treatment on the part of employers and their families."@en
"PLAYAWAY. Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Bront ︠wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only 'respectable' career open to them--that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children and then disdained in the superior Murray household, Agnes tells a story that is a compelling inside view of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism."
"Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë's first novel, centering around a rector's daughter working as a governess. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Bronte set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess's life entailed--frustration, isolation, and the insensitive and cruel treatment suffered at the hands of employers and their families."@en
"The story of a clergyman's daughter who, through reverses of fortune, becomes a governess. Based largely on Brontë's own experience."@en
"The first novel written by the youngest of the three Brontë sisters concerns a Victorian girl who becomes a governess."@en
"Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Bront︠ wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only "respectable" career open to them--that of a governess..."
"A story of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism."@en
"Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and, later, the Murrays, she suffers under the snobbery and sadism of the selfish, self-indulgent upper-class adults and the shrieking insolence of their spoiled children. Worse, the unique social and economic position of a governess-"beneath" her employers but "above" their servants-condemns her to a life of loneliness.Less celebrated than her older sisters, Charlotte and Emily, Anne Brontë was also less interested in spinning wildly symbolic, romantic tales and more determined to draw realistic images of conditions in Victorian England that needed changing. While Charlotte's Jane Eyre features a governess who eventually and improbably marries her employer, Agnes Grey deals with the actual experiences of middle-class working women, experiences Anne had herself endured during her hateful tenure as a governess."
"Although coming from an impoverished family, Anges Grey becomes the caretaker of two wealthy families children, a job which is usually reserved to women from the upper classes. Entering the world of England's elite socialites, Agnes becomes disgusted by the upper class' slow degradation of society's values."@en
"Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and, later, the Murrays, she suffers under the snobbery and sadism of the selfish, self-indulgent upper-class adults and the shrieking insolence of their spoiled children. Worse, the unique social and economic position of a governess-"beneath" her employers but "above" their servants-condemns her to a life of loneliness.Less celebrated than her older sisters, Charlotte and Emily, Anne Brontë was also less interested in spinning wildly symbolic, romantic tales and more determined to draw realistic images of conditions in Victorian England that needed changing. While Charlotte's Jane Eyre features a governess who eventually and improbably marries her employer, Agnes Grey deals with the actual experiences of middle-class working women, experiences Anne had herself endured during her hateful tenure as a governess."@en
"Written when she was twenty-six, Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë's first novel. It tells the story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Brontë set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess's life involved-the frustration, the isolation, and the insensitive and cruel treatment on the part of employers and their families. Too often, Anne Brontë has been portrayed as a saintly, self-effacing shadow of her elder sisters. But clearly she possessed resources of courage and determination equal to theirs, together with a sweetness that was all her own."@en
"PLAYAWAY. When the young Agnes Grey takes up her first post as governess she is full of hope: she believes she only has to remember 'myself at their age' to win her pupils' love and trust. Instead she finds the young children she has to deal with completely unmanageable. They are, as she observes to her mother, "unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures". Agnes Grey looks at childhood, from nursery to adolescence, and charts the frustrations of romantic love as Agnes starts to nurse warmer feelings towards the local curate, Mr Weston - container."
"A novel set in Victorian England based on the author's experiences, describing the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only "respectable" career open to them: that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children, then disdained in the superior Murray household, Agnes tells a story that is a compelling inside view of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism."@en
"A novel set in Victorian England based on the author's experiences, describing the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only "respectable" career open to them: that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children, then disdained in the superior Murray household, Agnes tells a story that is a compelling inside view of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism."
"Its opening sentences introduce a heroine who is honest, perceptive and charming. Unfortunately, the Bloomfields, who engage her as a governess, are rather less appealing, and the incarnation of the suppressed cruelties and hypocrisies of the Victorian age. When Agnes moves to a marginally less alarming family, one of her charges sets out to disrupt her only romantic hope."@en
"Drawing on her experiences, Anne Bronte wrote her first novel out of a need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only "respectable" career open to them--that of a governess."@en
""When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess. This is a personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women in Victorian society."--Publisher's description."@en
"This novel tells the story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Brontë set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess's life involved: the frustration, the isolation, and the insensitive and cruel treatment on the part of employers and their families."@en
"Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Bronte wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only 'respectable' career open to them - that of a governess. Agnes tells a story that is a compelling inside view of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism."

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