Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë's first novel, Agnes Grey accounts her own experience as a struggling governess, obliged to earn her living in one of the few ways open to an educated Victorian girl. Agnes is a gritty heroine and her story paints a realistic picture of an intelligent, sensitive young woman who endures months of isolation and frustration in a household that is not her home. But despite the unkindness, and sometimes even malice, to which she is subjected,...

Agnès Grey est la fille cadette d'un pasteur. Sa famille se retrouve dans une mauvaise passe financière et pour l'aider, Agnès décide de devenir gouvernante. Son passage dans deux familles va lui révéler que la situation de gouvernante n'est pas des plus faciles.
Anne, la plus jeune des soeurs Bronte, s'est appuyée sur sa propre expérience de gouvernante pour écrire ce premier roman dans lequel elle dénonce les carences éducatives

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Originally published in 1848, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is the second and final novel written by Anne Bronte. Considered one of the first feminist novels, it was both instantly successful and highly controversial. The story follows the relationship between Gilbert Markham, a prosperous farmer, and the mysterious widow Mrs. Helen Graham, who takes up residence with only her son and a servant in the nearby tumbledown mansion of Wildfell Hall. Told...

«Agnes Grey» é um retrato gritante do isolamento, estagnação intelectual e apatia emocional que rodeava muitas das governantas de meados do século XIX. Um romance em tom muito intimista, escrito a partir da experiência da própria autora, afirmou-se como um marco da literatura que lida com a evolução social e moral da sociedade inglesa.

A powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence and creative freedom, from the youngest of the Brontë sisters. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust...

Extrait: "A l'époque o les habitants de Fieldhead revinrent à Briarfield, Caroline était à peu près rétablie. Miss Keeldar, qui avait reçu par la poste des nouvelles de la convalescence de son amie, ne laissa pas une heure s'écouler entre son arrivée au manoir et sa visite à la rectorerie."

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The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when...

Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young...

Five novels by the nineteenth-century literary sisters who “turned domestic constraints into grist for brilliant books” (The Atlantic).
 
This collection brings together five novels by Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë in one volume.
 
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë: When a visitor arrives at a gloomy and isolated house in northern England, he discovers a story of...