Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Bront drew on her own experiences and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victorian governess 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 childhood from nursery to adolescence and it also charts the frustrations of romantic love as Agnes starts to nurse warmer feelings towards the local curate Mr Weston. The novel combines astute dissection of middle - class social behaviour and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: Agnes Grey
Author(s): Bronte Anne, Hilda Marsden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199296989
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 7/1/2010
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Classic Fiction