Agnes Grey

Name: Agnes Grey
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ISBN: 9780199296989

ISBN-10: 0199296987

ISBN-13: 9780199296989

Edition: 2010

Authors: Anne Brontï¿½, Robert Inglesfield, Hilda Marsden, Sally Shuttleworth, Anne Brontï¿½

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'How delightful it would be to be a governess!'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'. In writing her first novel, Anne Brontë drew on her own experiences, and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victoriangoverness, often stranded far from home, and treated with little respect by her employers, yet expected to control and educate her young charges. Agnes Grey looks at…

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List price: $6.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 6/10/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.60" wide x 5.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English