Agnes Grey is the touching story of a young girl who decides to enter the world as a governess, but whose bright illusions of acceptance, freedom and friendship are gradually destroyed.

A deeply moving account, Agnes Grey seriously discusses the contempt and inhumanity shown towards the poor though educated woman of the Victorian age, whose only resource was to become a governess.

Agnes Grey is the touching story of a young girl who decides to enter the world as a governess, but whose bright illusions of acceptance, freedom and friendship are gradually destroyed. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte charts the development of gentle Agnes and sympathetically depicts the harsh treatment she receives along the way. Leaving her idyllic home and close-knit family, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfields" residence, inside whose walls reign cruelt,and neglect. Although faced with tyrannical children and over-indulgent parents, the generosity of spirit and warm candour learnt from her own family never desert her. Agnes also remains firm in the Murray household, where she is used by the two disdainful young daughters for their own deceitful ends and where her chances of happiness are ahnost spoiled for her.

THE PARSONAGH

FIRST LESSON IN THE ART OF INSTRUOTIGN

A FEW MORE LRSSONS

THE GRANDMAMMA

THE UNCLE

THE PARSONANG AGAIN

HOKTON LODGE

THE "COMING OUT"

THE BALL

THE CHURCH

THE COTTAGERS

THE SHOWER

THE PRIMROSES

THE RECTOR

THE WALK

THE SUBSTITUTION

CONFESSIONS

MIRTH AND MOURNING

THE LETTER

THE FAREWELL

THE SCHOOL

THE VISIT

THE PARK

THE SANDS

CONCLUSION