Agnes Grey (Annotated)

Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey is a spare yet penetrating novel of moral endurance, social observation, and quiet protest. Drawing on the conventions of the Victorian governess narrative, it follows Agnes, a clergyman's daughter, as she enters domestic service among wealthy families whose refinement masks vanity, cruelty, and spiritual emptiness. Brontë's prose is restrained, lucid, and unsentimental, p...