In this state of not complete happiness yet of tolerable peace, her life is changed when a new clergyman, an Edward Weston, arrives in the area. She learns to live with her pupils and tackle their whims and caprices without complaining. She seeks her second position in a family of a country nobleman residing at a place called Horton Lodge and her charges here are only a few years younger than her. She struggles through the first year but is not able to satisfy either herself or her employers. The first place she gets is in a successful tradesman’s family where she is left to deal with extremely naughty and mischievous children with no authorities given to her to regularise their conduct. The family copes with this and the daughters Mary and Agnes are instructed and educated expertly by their mother to grow up in accomplished women.Īgnes decides to work as a governess to earn some money and ease up the financial situation of the family. Her father loses his fortune in an unfortunate event and they are left with income just enough to get them through the daily necessities. The story starts with Agnes’s childhood spent in the beautiful hills of England as a youngest daughter in a small and respectable family of a clergyman called Richard Grey. Agnes is a daughter of a poor clergyman whose experiences are shared with the reader in this book. Agnes Grey, the first novel by Anne Bronte made its appearance in 1847 right along with her sister Emily Bronte‘s “ Wuthering Heights“.
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