When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall, rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome.
When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall, rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As ...
Based on the author's own experience, Agnes Grey explores the position of women in Victorian society through the story of a young woman forced to work as a governess when her father is ruined financially. It is a classic not just as a result of the subtle and ironic force of Anne Bronte's prose, but also because of the passionate indictment of social injustice which animates it.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SAMANTHA ELLIS
Based on the author's own experience, Agnes Grey explores the position of women in Victorian society ...
