Anne bronte novel grey5/10/2023 It leaves no painful impression on the mind – some may think it leaves no impression at all.’ (The Atlas) Perhaps we shall best describe it as a somewhat coarse imitation of one of Miss Austin’s charming stories… The story, though lacking the power and originality of Wuthering Heights, is infinitely more agreeable. ‘ Agnes Grey is more level and more sunny. Let’s take a look at what some of the leading publications had to say about Anne Brontë’s ‘Agnes Grey’: The Agnes Grey frontispiece from the first edition Unfortunately, many of the opinions passed on the Brontës, or the Bells as they were known then, were highly unperceptive, and say more about the reviewers and the restrictive, often puritanical, nature of mid nineteenth century society than they do about the books. This was an exciting period for Charlotte too, as her ‘Jane Eyre’, despite being written long after her sisters’ novels, had already been released two months earlier, and the siblings must, like all new authors, have been waiting excitedly for the reviews to roll in. We know them better as Anne Brontë and Emily Brontë, of course, and the novels were ‘Agnes Grey’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’.
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