Anne Bronte eBooks

Agnes Grey. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Anne Brontë   -  Synapse Publishing, 2019  - 

After a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to help her family and assert her independence. When she takes up her first post as governess she is full of hope; she believes she only has to remember 'myself at their age' to win her pupils' love and trust. But Agnes's enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family; the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte's first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society.Complete edition with an interactive table of contents.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Anne Brontë   -  Synapse Publishing, 2019  - 

Who is the charming lady who has taken up residence in the decrepit, isolated residence of Wildfell Hall? Will that lonely woman, living with a child and an elderly maid, really be the young widow she claims to be? Helen Graham is extremely secretive, and her past is shrouded in thick mystery. But Gilbert Markham, a young country gentleman all about courting maidens, is immediately stung by a lively curiosity about the woman who treats him with unusual coldness.In 1848, the youngest of the Brontë sisters brings to print a novel that is scandalous beyond intentions: explicit language, crude descriptions of alcoholism and brutality and, above all, the story of a woman who never loses her self-respect and fights for her independence with faith, intelligence and courage, even to the point of violating social conventions and even English law. An ante litteram feminist text in defiance of Victorian morality.Complete edition with an interactive table of contents.