Bibliograph

Agnes Grey ;, The tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë ; with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Agnes Grey ;, The tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë ; with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Agnes Grey ;

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

745979724

Responsibility statement

Anne Brontë ; with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Series statement

Everyman's library, 343

Sub title

The tenant of Wildfell Hall

Summary

"Agnes Grey, the story of a governess working for disdainful and cruel employers ... illuminates the desperate straits faced by Victorian women without money or a husband.... The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [tells of] ... a woman who has run away from her alcoholic and abusive husband in order to protect their young son [and] live[s] in hiding because the law would take her child from her if she were found ..."--Front flap of jacket"The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Brontë sisters. Anne Brontë wrote these two fantastically successful novels just before her tragically early death, both of them in a much more grittily realistic mode than the more romantic ones favored by her sisters. Agnes Grey, the story of a governess working for disdainful and cruel employers, is a wrenching account of the desperate straits faced by Victorian women without money or husband. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall tells a story that was shocking for its time: a woman leaves her alcoholic and abusive husband in order to protect their young son and must live in hiding to prevent the law from taking her child away from her. These novels have become classics not only by dint of the subtle and ironic force of Anne Brontë's prose but because of the passionate indictments of social injustice that animate them."--Publisher's website

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