Agnes Grey: Penguin Classics Audiobook (Free)

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When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey decides to find are a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes’s excitement is swiftly extinguished as she problems first with the unmanageable Bloomfield kids and then with the painful disdain from the haughty Murray family members; the just kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober youthful curate. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë’s first novel presents a convincing personal perspective around the eager placement of unmarried, educated ladies for whom becoming a governess was the just respectable career open in Victorian society.