Anne Bronte Audio

Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë’s first novel, centering around a rector’s daughter working as a governess.

The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era – the role of governess to the children of the wealthy.

For all those captivated by the trials of Jane Eyre, Anne Bront's heroine Agnes Grey is the ideal counterpoint. Agnes Grey is widely considered to be the best record of the precarious position of the governess in Victorian society, and the insolence, neglect and dependence that the gentle Agnes is forced to endure is conveyed with great feeling.

Agnes Grey is Anne Bronte's story about a governess, similar to her sister's work Jane Eyre in that both novels explore the social issues that a Victorian governess not only observes but becomes involved with. Agnes Grey was Anne’s first novel.

Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846, and their first work to ever go in print.

Anne, like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, published under a male pseudonym -- Acton Bell -- yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism concealed...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son.