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portada Agnes Grey (Classics)
Type
Physical Book
Year
1988
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
ISBN
0140432108
ISBN13
9780140432107
Edition No.
1

Agnes Grey (Classics)

Anne Brontë (Author) · Penguin Classics · Paperback

Agnes Grey (Classics) - Anne Brontë

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Synopsis "Agnes Grey (Classics)"

‘The name of governess, I soon found, was a mere mockery … my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt’When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes’s enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family; the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë’s first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society.This edition also includes Charlotte Brontë’s memoir of her sisters, theBiographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell. Angeline Goreau examines Anne Brontë’s complex relationship with her sisters and her unhappy career as a governess as influences in writing Agnes Grey.
Anne Brontë
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Anne Brönte era la más joven de las hermanas Brontë. Al igual que sus hermanas Emily y Charlotte, ha pasado a la historia de la literatura a pesar de su corta vida y con solo dos novelas escritas, que publicó bajo el seudónimo de Acton Bell. Siendo una adolescente, junto a su hermana Emily, creó el imaginario reino de Gondal, acerca del cual ambas escribieron cuentos y poemas. A los 19 años entró a trabajar de institutriz, pero enseguida se sintió frustrada al no poder educar bien a una infancia que le pareció ingobernable y consentida. Esta experiencia le sirvió para moldear su primera novela, _Agnes Grey._ La buena acogida de esta obra, permitió al año siguiente la aparición de la segunda y última, _La inquilina de Wildfell Hall._ En ella, se narraba la llegada de una mujer, aparentemente viuda, y de su hijo de corta edad a una antigua mansión, hecho que desatará todo tipo de reacciones en la vecindad. Esta novela fue tachada de inmoral por sus contemporáneos debido a la dureza de ciertos pasajes. Anne murió de tuberculosis.
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