Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Brontë.
When Agnes’s father loses the family savings, young Agnes determines to make her own living – as a governess. Working for the Bloomfields, her enthusiasm is soon dampened by isolation and the cruelty of the children in her charge. Agnes hopes for better in her second job, but when the scheming elder daughter Rosalie makes designs on Agnes’s new friend, the kind curate Mr Weston, she feels herself silenced and sidelined. Becoming a governess is one thing, becoming invisible is quite another.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SAMANTHA ELLIS
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Published: 12/01/2017
ISBN: 9781473547834
Length: 224 Pages
RRP: £6.99
Brontë depicts in detail the isolation inherent in a governess's life, as an educated – but by necessity not too educated – woman trapped in an awkward halfway world between the classes