Published in June 1848, less than a year before her death, Anne Bronte's second (and last) novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, is the somber account of the breakdown of a marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. The novel enjoyed a modest success that led its publisher, the unscrupulous T.C. Newby, to issue a "Second Edition" less than two months later. The present edition, which completes the Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontes, offers a text based on the collation of the first edition with the second. The introduction details the work's composition and early printing...

"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, shriveled 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 years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the...

Helen heiratet gegen alle Widerstnde den gutaussehenden Arthur. Doch schon bald nach der Hochzeit stellt er sich als Schrzenjger und Trunkenbold heraus, der von Helen Gehorsam und Nachsicht erwartet. Helen verlt ihren Mann und behauptet sich gegen die gesellschaftlichen Konventionen ihrer Zeit als alleinstehende Frau.Anne Bront pldiert mit diesem Meisterwerk fr die Gleichberechtigung der Frau in der Ehe.

The daughter of Patrick Bronte, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Bronte lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. She also attended a boarding school in Mirfield between 1836 and 1837.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Bronte. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontes' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication.Her second and last novel,...

Concerned for her family's financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Bronte's own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure. As Barbara A. Suess writes in her Introduction, "Bronte provides a portrait of the...

Agnes Grey es una novela escrita y publicada en 1847 por la autora inglesa Anne Bronte. La novela trata acerca de una institutriz del mismo nombre, y esta basada en las propias experiencias de Bronte en la materia. Fue, asimismo, la primera novela de la autora. De forma similar a la novela de su hermana, Jane Eyre, esta es una novela que senala la posicion precaria que afrontaba una institutriz y como afectaba a una joven mujer. El novelista irlandes George Moore elogio Agnes Grey como la "narrativa en prosa mas perfecta de las obras literarias inglesas.""

'Agnes Grey' was Anne Bronte's debut novel, largely based on her own life experiences, with the eponymous heroine being an impoverished young woman who is forced to take a position as governess to the spoilt, rebellious children of a wealthy family."