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| | Agnes Grey (Unabridged) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In Victorian times, an unmarried woman of good breeding didn't have much choice of vocation. |
 | | Agnes Grey, a single woman, becomes a governess because it is one of the few respectable occupations open to her. |
 | | Told in a simple, realistic style, and drawing on Anne Brontë's own experiences as governess at Thorp Green Hall near York, this first novel by Anne Brontë depicts the small humiliations and inhumanity a governess was forced to endure, and in so doing is a powerful indictment of Victorian society. |
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