Agnes GreyBrontë, Anne
Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey takes work as a governess and discovers how little authority she has over the children she teaches. Anne Brontë draws on her own experience of life in other people’s households.
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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of…
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