Agnes Grey - Brontë, Anne

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Résumé :
A calm, piercing tale of a young woman finding voice in a rigid world. Agnes Grey offers a quiet revolution in virtue, duty, and discernment. In this restored edition from Alpha Editions, Agnes Grey unfolds as a precise study in victorian realism: a governess navigating expensive households, hushed power, and the quiet gravity of everyday moral choice. The novel blends domestic social concerns with a sharp critique of class and gender roles, inviting readers to reflect on how faith, conscience, and resilience shape character. It sits at the intersection of classic literature and social realism, appealing to university literature study, classic literature students, and book club readers who look for substance, texture, and a humane point of view. A note on literary and historical significance: Agnes Grey is a cornerstone of the Bront? sister novels, offering a lucid counterpoint to more melodramatic works of the era while illuminating rural english households, the pressures of Victorian England, and the responsibilities of women. Its quiet seriousness and moral reflection informed later generations of writers and critics. This edition makes the novel accessible to both casual readers and collectors, preserving its voice for today's readers and future generations. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. An essential addition to shelves of victorian england settings and thoughtful, character-driven fiction....

Biographie:
Anne Bront? (17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bront? literary family.The daughter of Patrick Bront?, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Bront? 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. Partly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Bront? after Anne's death, she is not as well known as her sisters. However, her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature.