Name: Agnes Grey
SKU: 58883202
Price: 367.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Bronte, Anne
ISBN: 9789390852376

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anne Brontë

Publisher

True Sign Publishing House

Language

English

Pages

162

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x0.9 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9789390852376

Synopsis "Agnes Grey"

Women and their dimensions of thought have always been the mystery that almost every author has lamented over. In a male dominated world, the idea of women freedom of choice has always been the cause of turmoil in relationships and society at large. This wonderful book by Anne Bronte is largely a depiction of her own experiences as a governess and how she saw the women for all walks who came across in her course of life. The main character of the story, Agnes finds herself a job as a governess in wealthy household thinking that her financial independence would somehow relieve her of the miseries of life. She gets fired from her first job where is comes across unruly and rude children. In the second job as a governess, it comes as realization to her that it is the women at large who are oppressed in this male dominated society and each one is fighting a battle at some level or the other.

Anne Brontë

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Anne Brönte was the youngest of the Brontë sisters. Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, she has gone down in literary history despite her short life and with only two novels written, which she published under the pseudonym Acton Bell. As a teenager, along with her sister Emily, she created the imaginary kingdom of Gondal, about which they both wrote stories and poems. At 19, she started working as a governess, but soon felt frustrated by her inability to properly educate what she saw as an unruly and spoiled youth. This experience helped shape her first novel, "Agnes Grey". The warm reception of this work allowed the appearance of her second and last novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", the following year. It tells the story of the arrival of a woman, seemingly a widow, and her young son to an old mansion, an event that triggers all kinds of reactions in the neighborhood. This novel was deemed immoral by her contemporaries due to the harshness of certain passages. Finally, Anne died of tuberculosis at the young age of 29.

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