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Agnes Grey

With a specially commissioned Introduction and Notes by Kathryn White, Assistant Curator/Librarian of the Brontë Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire This novel is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved condit

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Characters

Anne Brontë (5)

“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”

— Anne Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Common Sense, surprise, Confused

“The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”

— Anne Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Living, Life, Survival

“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”

— Anne Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Missing You, Thoughts, one-sided

“Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”

— Anne Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Bookworm

“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”

— Anne Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: beauty, wishes, Exterior