Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë penguin A post–World War II childhood

A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we enter the child’s world of the imagination

she comes across a photo of Marta Becket and decides to write her a letter

A beloved contemporary feminist classic and pioneering work of autofiction—a funny

Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up

Léa de Lonval is an aging courtesan

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë penguin A post–World War II childhoodDrawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bront wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position. Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a