Agnes grey

By:

Bronte, Anne

Publication details: Penguin Random House, 2021. New Delhi:Description: 224p.;pbk. 20cmISBN:

9780140432107

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823.8 BRO

Summary: Published in 1847, Anne Brontë’s first novel exposes with remarkable realism the hardships and exploitation endured by governesses in Victorian England. In a narrative that drew heavily on her own experience, Brontë’s goal was not to amuse or to entertain but, as Agnes Grey says, to benefit those whom it might concern—governesses themselves, whose numbers were rapidly growing in the late nineteenth century, and the British aristocracy who employed them. Because of the great imbalance in the ratio of women to men in England, with so many men living and working abroad in the far reaches of the British Empire, thousands of women were unable to marry. This problem was compounded by the strong social stigma against women working and the extremely limited professions to which they were admitted. Increasingly, out of desperation, women became governesses, accepting terms that would leave them exhausted, impoverished, and socially outcast. Brontë sought to make their plight visible to the English public and to arouse the kind of compassion that might lead to reform. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/329102/agnes-grey-by-anne-bronte/9780140432107/readers-guide/

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar General Stacks	823.8 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		031081

Published in 1847, Anne Brontë’s first novel exposes with remarkable realism the hardships and exploitation endured by governesses in Victorian England. In a narrative that drew heavily on her own experience, Brontë’s goal was not to amuse or to entertain but, as Agnes Grey says, to benefit those whom it might concern—governesses themselves, whose numbers were rapidly growing in the late nineteenth century, and the British aristocracy who employed them. Because of the great imbalance in the ratio of women to men in England, with so many men living and working abroad in the far reaches of the British Empire, thousands of women were unable to marry. This problem was compounded by the strong social stigma against women working and the extremely limited professions to which they were admitted. Increasingly, out of desperation, women became governesses, accepting terms that would leave them exhausted, impoverished, and socially outcast. Brontë sought to make their plight visible to the English public and to arouse the kind of compassion that might lead to reform.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/329102/agnes-grey-by-anne-bronte/9780140432107/readers-guide/

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