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Agnes Grey (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

Drawing directly on her own unhappy experiences, Anne Bronte's first-person narrative describes the almost unbelievable pressures endured by nineteenth-century governesses - the isolation, the frustration, and the insensitive and sometimes cruel treatment meted out by [...]

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The Brontë Sisters Three Novels (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Charlotte Bronte (Author), Emily Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author), Charlotte Brontë (Author), Emily Brontë (Author), Bronte Sisters (Author)

The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" and Emily's "Wuthering Heights" have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. This title unites these two favourites.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

A mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and [...]

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Agnes Grey (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author), Robert Inglesfield (Editor), Hilda Marsden (Editor)

In Agnes Grey Anne Bronte drew on her own experiences as a governess, trying to cope with unmanageable children with little respect from her employer. It combines a wonderful study of Victorian responses to children with a story of romantic love, and this new edition does [...]

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The Brontë Sisters: Three Novels (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Charlotte Bronte (Author), Emily Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author), Charlotte Brontë (Author), Emily Brontë (Author)

Offers a view of Victorian chauvinism and materialism.

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Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her [...]

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Bronte Sisters (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Charlotte Bronte (Author), Emily Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author), Charlotte Brontë (Author), Emily Brontë (Author)

Contains the following unabridged novels: "Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"; "Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre"; and, Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights". This boxed set of novels is beautifully designed, with a real cloth padded top and matt laminated printed sides over [...]

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author), Herbert Rosengarten (Editor)

A passionate tale of betrayal, this story of a man's alcoholic decline, marital breakdown and its effect on children, and the position of women in Victorian society is told with shocking vividness and power. This new edition combines an authoritative text with wide-ranging [...]

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Agnes Grey (Book)

A. Bronte (Author), Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

This novel is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century. It is a personal work, written from the author's own experience.

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Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Book)

A. Bronte (Author), Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

This work is a sometimes violent and brutal tale of love and betrayal, separation and reconciliation, set in the familiar Bronte landscape of bleak houses in moorland settings. This new edition is taken from the 1848 second edition of the text, with corrections made to that text.

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Agnes grey (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

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Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

Part of the "Collector's Library" series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

When Helen flees from her alcoholic husband in order to protect her son she defies societal convention. Earning a living as an artist, she becomes the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall as she hides herself away and uses her art to support her child. However, the beautiful [...]

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Book)

Anne Bronte (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)

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