Anne Brontë

Agnes Grey (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In her daring first novel, the youngest Brontë sister drew upon her own experiences to tell the unvarnished truth about life as a governess. Like Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë was a young middle-class Victorian lady whose family fortunes had faltered. Like so many other unmarried women of the nineteenth century, Brontë accepted the only "respectable" employment availableand entered a world of hardship, humiliation, and loneliness.
Written with a realism that shocked critics, this biting social commentary offers a sympathetic portrait of Agnes and a moving indictment of her brutish and haughty employers. Separated from her family and friends by many miles, paid little more than subsistence wages, Agnes stands aloneboth in society at large and in a household where she is neither family member nor servant.
In addition to its challenge to the era's chauvinism and materialism, Agnes Grey features a first-person narrative that offers a rare opportunity to hear the voice of a Victorian working woman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486113951
• Artikelnr.: 39072912