Anne Brontë Agnes Grey Paperback from Oxford World's Classics
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Further Details Title: Agnes Grey Condition: New EAN: 9780199296989 ISBN: 9780199296989 Publisher: Oxford University Press Format: Paperback Release Date: 06/10/2010 Item Height: 196mm Item Length: 130mm Item Width: 15mm Contributor: Robert Inglesfield (Edited by), Hilda Marsden (Edited by), Sally Shuttleworth (Introduction by) Language: English ISBN-10: 0199296987 Description: 'How delightful it would be to be a governess!'When the young Agnes Grey takes up her first post as governess she is full of hope; she believes she only has to remember 'myself at their age' to win her pupils' love and trust. Instead she finds the young children she has to deal with completely unmanageable. They are, as she observes to her mother, 'unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures'. In writing her first novel, Anne Brontë drew on her own experiences, and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victorian governess, often stranded far from home, and treated with little respect by her employers, yet expected to control and educate her young charges. Agnes Grey looks at childhood from nursery to adolescence, and it also charts the frustrations of romantic love, as Agnes starts to nurse warmer feelings towards the local curate, Mr Weston.The novel combines astute dissection of middle-class social behaviour and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: Fiction Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Topic: Classic Fiction Author: Anne Brontë Item Weight: 181g Release Year: 2010 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
