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Agnes Grey

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02 May 2019
256 pages
9781509890002
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

Reviews

The most perfect prose narrative in English letters
Anne provided her heroine with a hero who was actually nice to women. This still feels revolutionary
A compelling Victorian take on the iniquities of the wealth gap
For too long [Anne] has been undervalued as the third-best Brontë. But her fiction, exploring the lamentably still-current themes of addiction and domestic violence and the abuse of vulnerable women working away from home, has a vigour and bracing satirical intelligence which places her in the first rank of what is arguably the greatest ever generation of novelists in English