Written when she was twenty-six Agnes Grey is Anne Bront?s first novel. It tells the story of a rector?s daughter who has to earn her living as a governess when her family enters a financial crisis. Drawing directly from her own experiences Anne Bront? set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess? life involved: the frustration the isolation and the insensitive and cruel treatment on the part of employers and their families.
Mature insightful and edged with a quiet irony this debut displays a keen sense of moral responsibility and sharp eye for bourgeois attitudes and behavior?and the corrosive power of wealth.
