Agnes Grey

ISBN-13: 9781509890002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

Anne Bronte

Opis

Anne Bronte's classic debut novel about life as a Victorian governess, with a new introduction by historian and biographer Juliet Barker.

Recenzje

The most perfect prose narrative in English letters George Moore

O autorze

Anne Brontë was born in Yorkshire in 1820. She was the youngest of six children and the sister of fellow novelists Charlotte and Emily, the authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights respectively. Her mother died when she was a baby and she was raised by her aunt and her father, The Reverend Patrick Brontë. Anne worked as a governess before returning to Haworth where she and her sisters published poems under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. She published her first novel, Agnes Grey in 1847 and this was followed by The Tenant of Wildfell Hallin 1848. She died from tuberculosis in 1849