Agnes Grey A Classic Victorian Novel of Governess Life, Independence, and Moral Courage
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Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
Smk BooksSeitenzahl
156
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/1.3 cm
Gewicht
387 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5154-2868-8
Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey, first published under the name Acton Bell in 1847, is a quiet, severe, and deeply observant novel of work, dignity, conscience, and female independence. Drawing on Brontë's own experience as a governess, the novel follows Agnes Grey as she enters the households of the English gentry and discovers the moral cost of class privilege, poor education, selfish parenting, and social indifference. Project Gutenberg's edition preserves the original title-page attribution to Acton Bell and the 1847 London publication by Thomas Cautley Newby. Unlike the more dramatic Gothic intensity of Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey works by restraint. Its power lies in the clarity of its moral vision and the precision with which Brontë depicts the vulnerable position of a young woman required to earn her living inside homes that do not respect her. Agnes is neither passive nor sentimental; she observes, endures, judges, and gradually claims the right to a life shaped by principle rather than dependency. The result is one of the most sharply realistic novels in the Brontë canon: a story of governess life, social cruelty, religious seriousness, romantic hope, and hard-won self-command. For readers of Victorian fiction, women's classics, Brontë novels, governess fiction, literary realism, and nineteenth-century English literature, Agnes Grey remains an essential work. It is both a social novel and a moral novel, exposing the private injuries hidden beneath respectable households while giving its heroine a voice of unusual steadiness, intelligence, and inward strength.
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