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Herausgeber: P
Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

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Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy. An additional theme is the fair treatment of animals. Agnes Grey also mimics some of the stylistic approaches of bildungsromans, employing ideas of personal growth and coming to age, but representing a character who in fact does not gain in virtue. The Irish novelist George Moore praised Agnes Grey as "the most perfect prose narrative in English letters," and went so far as to compare Anne's prose to that of Jane Austen. Modern critics have made more subdued claims admiring Agnes Grey with a less overt praise of Brontë's work than Moore. Agnes Grey is the daughter of Mr. Grey, a minister of modest means, and Mrs. Grey, a woman who left her wealthy family and married purely out of love. Mr. Grey tries to increase the family's financial standing, but the merchant he entrusts his money to dies in a wreck, and the lost investment plunges the family into debt.

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CHAPTER I - THE PARSONAGE

CHAPTER II - FIRST LESSONS IN THE ART OF INSTRUCTION

CHAPTER III - A FEW MORE LESSONS

CHAPTER IV - THE GRANDMAMMA

CHAPTER V - THE UNCLE

CHAPTER VI - THE PARSONAGE AGAIN

CHAPTER VII - HORTON LODGE

CHAPTER VIII - THE “COMING OUT”

CHAPTER IX - THE BALL

CHAPTER X - THE CHURCH

CHAPTER XI - THE COTTAGERS

CHAPTER XII - THE SHOWER

CHAPTER XIII - THE PRIMROSES

CHAPTER XIV - THE RECTOR

CHAPTER XV - THE WALK

CHAPTER XVI - THE SUBSTITUTION

CHAPTER XVII - CONFESSIONS

CHAPTER XVIII - MIRTH AND MOURNING

CHAPTER XIX - THE LETTER

CHAPTER XX - THE FAREWELL

CHAPTER XXI - THE SCHOOL

CHAPTER XXII - THE VISIT

CHAPTER XXIII - THE PARK

CHAPTER XXIV - THE SANDS

CHAPTER XXV - CONCLUSION

Agnes Grey

Anne Bronte

First digital edition 2018 by Fabio De Angelis

CHAPTER I - THE PARSONAGE

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend.

My father was a clergyman of the north of England, who was deservedly respected by all who knew him; and, in his younger days, lived pretty comfortably on the joint income of a small incumbency and a snug little property of his own. My mother, who married him against the wishes of her friends, was a squire’s daughter, and a woman of spirit. In vain it was represented to her, that if she became the poor parson’s wife, she must relinquish her carriage and her lady’s-maid, and all the luxuries and elegancies of affluence; which to her were little less than the necessaries of life. A carriage and a lady’s-maid were great conveniences; but, thank heaven, she had feet to carry her, and hands to minister to her own necessities. An elegant house and spacious grounds were not to be despised; but she would rather live in a cottage with Richard Grey than in a palace with any other man in the world.

Finding arguments of no avail, her father, at length, told the lovers they might marry if they pleased; but, in so doing, his daughter would forfeit every fraction of her fortune. He expected this would cool the ardour of both; but he was mistaken. My father knew too well my mother’s superior worth not to be sensible that she was a valuable fortune in herself: and if she would but consent to embellish his humble hearth he should be happy to take her on any terms; while she, on her part, would rather labour with her own hands than be divided from the man she loved, whose happiness it would be her joy to make, and who was already one with her in heart and soul. So, her fortune went to swell the purse of a wiser sister, who had married a rich nabob; and she, to the wonder and compassionate regret of all who knew her, went to bury herself in the homely village parsonage among the hills of -. And yet, in spite of all this, and in spite of my mother’s high spirit and my father’s whims, I believe you might search all England through, and fail to find a happier couple.

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CHAPTER I - THE PARSONAGE