Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë's clear-eyed first novel follows a clergyman's daughter into the thankless world of the Victorian governess, where gentility masks cruelty and quiet integrity is its own reward.

At a glance A young woman steps out of a loving but impoverished parsonage, certain that earning her… What she finds instead is a household that treats her as furniture with feelings. What it's about Agnes Grey traces the working life of a clergyman's daughter who takes… Passed between families of the newly rich and the carelessly genteel, she is charged…

Agnes Grey traces the working life of a clergyman's daughter who takes posts as a governess to help her family.