Blue_Stuff

Blue Stuff Book Description Concerned for her family’s financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Brontë’s own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure. As Barbara A. Suess writes in her Introduction, “Brontë provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting.” This is the personal story of 19th century Englishwoman Agnes Grey. It is written much like a diary. It shares Agnes's experiences of leaving her sheltered family life to become a governess and the joy and sacrifice she endured What one reviewer at amazon said about Agnes Grey: After reading "Wuthering Heights" (by Emily), "Jane Eyre" (by Charlotte), and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (by Anne), I found myself slightly disappointed by the lack of passion and romanticism in Anne Bronte's "Agnes Grey". This novel truly is simple, unpretentious, and down-to-earth--and, therefore, far blue, stuff, agnes, grey, governess, rosalie, anne, truly, story, parents, make, yet, wuthering, wildfell, weston, tyrannical, thinking, say, read, own, out, nothing, murray, much, makes, love, humiliation, heights, hardship, hall, family, experiences, every, employment, drawn, class, children, character