Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Brontë sisters, with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet.
Anne Brontë wrote these two fantastically successful novels just before her tragically early death, both of them in a much more grittily realistic mode than the more romantic ones favored by her sisters. Agnes Grey, the story of a governess working for disdainful and cruel employers, is a wrenching account of the desperate straits faced by Victorian women without money or husband. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall tells a story that was shocking for its time: a woman leaves her alcoholic and abusive husband in order to protect their young son and must live in…