Agnes shares her views on the preaching of Hatfield and Weston. The Murray girls tell Agnes Grey of the happenings while she was with family. Miss Murray and Agnes Grey discuss the upcoming ball, family, and marriage. Chapter VII: Horton LodgeĪgnes Grey describes her new position and the family for whom she works.
Chapter VI: The Parsonage AgainĪgnes Grey spends time with her family, but finally determines to seek employment and try her hand at becoming a governess once more. Bloomfield makes a suprising announcement.
She relates the story of teaching Tom he can’t torture little birds. Chapter V: The UncleĪgnes Grey describes the uncle and her reasons for disliking him. She laments the short vacation she was given to visit with her family, and finds understanding only in the nurse. Chapter IV: The GrandmammaĪgnes Grey details the behavior of the children, their father, and his mother. She rises to the challenge, determined to succeed. Chapter III: A Few More LessonsĪgnes Grey details the challenges posed by her charges, and the strained relations she feels within the family. The mistress and children are not quite what she expected. Chapter II: First Lessons in the Art of InstructionĪgnes Grey meets the family for which she will be governess. Chapter I: The ParsonageĪgnes Grey narrates her family background and the circumstances that led to her employment as a governess. Agnes Grey was Anne's first novel.īrontë, A. After her father's death, Agnes opens a small school with her mother and finds happiness with a man who loves her for herself.Agnes Grey is Anne Bronte's story about a governess, similar to her sister's work Jane Eyre in that both novels explore the social issues that a Victorian governess not only observes but becomes involved with. In working with two different families (the Bloomfields and the Murrays), she comes to learn about the troubles that face a young woman who must try to rein in unruly, spoiled children for a living, and about the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values.
Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era – the role of governess to the children of the wealthy. The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Download cover art Download CD case insert Agnes Grey
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