Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
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Agnes Grey

Author: Anne Brontë

Narrator: Fiona Hardingham

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/19/2023


Synopsis

When young Agnes Grey’s family falls on hard financial times, she decides to take a job as a governess with the wealthy Bloomfield family, and then later the even-wealthier Murray family. But they are cruel and unkind, and with them Agnes is lonely isolated, and very aware of how vulnerable she is.   What Agnes wants is happiness and fulfillment, but are they out of reach for her?   Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë’s first novel and based on the author’s own experiences of the challenges faced by young women born without many opportunities.  

About Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë was born in Yorkshire in 1820. The Brontë children were raised in an isolated parsonage, where they thrived in fantasy worlds that drew on their voracious reading of Byron, Scott, Shakespeare, and Gothic fiction. Anne’s first novel, Agnes Grey, was published together with her sister Emily’s Wuthering Heights in 1847. She died of tuberculosis in 1849, shortly after Emily and their brother Branwell died of the same illness.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma

Here's the thing: I am, at heart, a lover, not a fighter. Sure, when it comes to young adult books, and to romance, and to thrillers, and to contemporaries, and to historical fiction, and to mysteries, and to...essentially anything that can be categorized as "genre fiction," you may be tempted to cal......more

My Views- My incorrigible propensity for books with Biblical references and teachings, decoyed me into this precious work of gracious civility in the midst of hardships! “Agnes Grey”, delineates, that amidst all the tormenting, hardships, lamentations and broodings, the tenets of love-laden Christ......more