Written when women—and workers generally—had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess’s life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under the snobbery and sadism of the selfish, self-indulgent upper-class adults and the shrieking insolence of their spoiled children. Worse, the unique social and economic position of a governess—“beneath” her employers but “above” their servants—condemns her to a life of loneliness.
Less celebrated than her older sisters Charlotte and Emily, Anne Bronte was also less interested in spinning wildly symbolic, romantic tales and more determined to draw realistic images of conditions in Victorian England that need changing. While Charlotte’s Jane Eyre features a governess who eventually and improbably marries her employer, Agnes Grey deals with the actual experiences of middle-class working women, experiences Anne had herself endured during her hateful tenure as a governess.
————真实的再现 作者是勃朗特三姐妹中最小的妹妹——安妮*勃朗特,一个听起来有些陌生的名字。这部小说是由安妮在当家庭教师时的日记整理而成,具有很强的自传风格。故事很简单,文字是我喜欢的浅显朴素风格,通篇没有什么戏剧冲突,几乎就是日常生活的再现。安妮将她...
评分 评分读书笔记14:阿格尼斯·格雷 三姐妹都死于肺结核,小妹妹安妮最早走,在身前艾米丽和安妮的著作都不受关注,大姐虽然出了名,经济上也没有太多的改善。相比起,后来呼啸山庄的声名突起,安妮的这本小册子始终不温不火,更多时候是两个姐姐的点缀。 小妹妹的风格跟姐姐们差别很...
评分————真实的再现 作者是勃朗特三姐妹中最小的妹妹——安妮*勃朗特,一个听起来有些陌生的名字。这部小说是由安妮在当家庭教师时的日记整理而成,具有很强的自传风格。故事很简单,文字是我喜欢的浅显朴素风格,通篇没有什么戏剧冲突,几乎就是日常生活的再现。安妮将她...
评分这是我第一本读完了的英文小说。 确实想给自己先鼓一下掌,又确实觉得太矫情。读完了它,实在不是因为它特别值得读,而是,我已经读了不下七八本英文小说,从来都是半途而废,或者“虎头蛇身”,这一本捧在手上,从翻开第一页开始,就对自己说,一定要读完它,无论如何,如果...
很简单的故事,很简单的情节,很简单的角色。但却看了很多很多遍,大概,是因为里面有追求的简单的幸福,得来不易却如此安稳。(靠!怎么一秒变女文艺青年了!)
评分很简单的故事,很简单的情节,很简单的角色。但却看了很多很多遍,大概,是因为里面有追求的简单的幸福,得来不易却如此安稳。(靠!怎么一秒变女文艺青年了!)
评分很简单的故事,很简单的情节,很简单的角色。但却看了很多很多遍,大概,是因为里面有追求的简单的幸福,得来不易却如此安稳。(靠!怎么一秒变女文艺青年了!)
评分很简单的故事,很简单的情节,很简单的角色。但却看了很多很多遍,大概,是因为里面有追求的简单的幸福,得来不易却如此安稳。(靠!怎么一秒变女文艺青年了!)
评分很简单的故事,很简单的情节,很简单的角色。但却看了很多很多遍,大概,是因为里面有追求的简单的幸福,得来不易却如此安稳。(靠!怎么一秒变女文艺青年了!)
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