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Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Category: Classics
‘Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons.’Agnes Grey (1847) was Anne Bronte’s first novel and a poignant account of 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 not a romantic heroine such a ...Show more
Agnes Grey by ANNE BRONTE
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poign ...Show more
Agnes Grey (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anne Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.When Agnes Grey's family falls on hard times she insists on being allowed to find work as a governess, ...Show more
Agnes Grey/The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Category: Classics
"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title. With a child but no husba ...Show more
Brontes: Selected Poems by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
Category: Gift | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones. Emily Bronte, best known for her novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, began writing poetry first and, before her untimely death, wrote some of the most touching and emotive poems which often reflected the landscape of her Yorkshire ho ...Show more
The Bronte Sisters: The Complete Novels by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
Category: Classics
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are three of the most remarkable novelists and poets of the nineteenth century. Charlotte was the most prolific of the three: "Jane Eyre", the story of a governess' triumph over her lowly station in life; "Shirley", set in Yorkshire at the time of the Luddite riots at th ...Show more
The Bronte Sisters Three Novels (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition): Jane Eyre - Wuthering Heights - Agnes Grey by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
The most cherished novel from each of England's talented sisters, in one gorgeously packaged volume. The Brontë family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibiliti ...Show more
The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. For the first time ever, Penguin Classics unites these two enduring fav ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'. In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
Fleeing a disastrous marriage, Helen Huntingdon retreats to the desolate mansion, Wildfell Hall, with her son, Arthur. There, she makes her living as a painter. Finding it difficult to avoid her neighbors, she is soon an object of speculation and gossip. Bront� portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for ind ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Anne Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
This classic epistolary novel is an intimate portrait of a wild Victorian life. It reveals the story of Helen Graham's marriage to the handsome but dissolute Arthur Huntingdon and her escape from her marriage to the isolated Wildfell Hall. Helen refuses to marry her would-be lover Gilbert Markham and gi ...Show more
Women Who Wrote - Stories and Poems from Audacious Literary Mavens by Louisa May Alcott; Jane Austen; Charlotte Bronte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte; Gertrude Stein; Phillis Wheatley
Category: Classics
Meet the women who wrote. They wrote against all odds. Some wrote defiantly; some wrote desperately. Some wrote while trapped within the confines of status and wealth. Some wrote hand-to-mouth in abject poverty. Some wrote trapped in a room of their father's house, and some went in search of a room of ...Show more
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