Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, Fiction, Classics

by Anne Bronte

Overview

"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend." -- Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592248056
Publisher:	Borgo Press
Publication date:	12/01/2002
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. The daughter of Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. She also attended a boarding school in Mirfield between 1836 and 1837. At 19 she left Haworth and worked as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She published a volume of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846) and two novels. Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847. Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848. Like her poems, both her novels were first published under the masculine pen name of Acton Bell. Anne's life was cut short when she died of what is now suspected to be pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29.

Table of Contents

I. The Parsonage
II. First Lessons in the Art of Instruction
III. A Few More Lessons
IV. The Grandmamma
V. The Uncle
VI. The Parsonage Again
VII. Horton Lodge
VIII. The "Coming Out"
IX. The Ball
X. The Church
XI. The Cottagers
XII. The Shower
XIII. The Primroses
XIV. The Rector
XV. The Walk
XVI. The Substitution
XVII. Confessions
XVIII. Mirth and Mourning
XIX. The Letter
XX. The Farewell
XXI. The School
XXII. The Visit
XXIII. The Park
XXIV. The Sands
XXV. Conclusion