"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 Bront'͡s own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure."--Modern Library.
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ISBN:0783891431
ISBN:9780783891439
Physical Description:320 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.