Michael Gouker reviewed Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent …
Review of 'Agnes Grey' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Agnes Grey is much more personal than the other Bronte stories. This is the tale of (shock!) a governess. The reader is treated to a gazetteer of all that it is to be a woman of little means in a world deaf to her misfortune. Agnes Grey is faithful to the rest of the Bronte ambient, including the imminence of death's knocking on the heroine's door.