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When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. However, Agnes’s enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family . . .
A tale of female bravery in the face of isolation and subjugation, Agnes Grey offers a simple prosaic style that propels the narrative forward in a gentle yet rhythmic manner which continuously leaves the reader wanting to know more. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many nineteenth-century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position.