Agnes Grey

Author: Bronte, Anne, White, Kathryn (Assistant Curator / Librarian, The Bronte Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire.)

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 5 September 1994 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Classics' series.

Paperback | 192 pages
196 x 127 x 11 | 130g

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 poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral evolution of English society during the last century.