Anne Bronte

by Betty Jay

Anne Bront 's Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) each offer a fascinating account of the relation between gender and power in nineteenth-century Britain. While Bront 's first novel focuses on the governess and education, it shares, with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, a concern with female disempowerment and the ways in which forms of tyranny can be resisted. Through her inscriptions of the complex intersections of gender, class,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746309228
• ISBN13: 9780746309223
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.4"