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Unhappy in her marriage, a woman moves to the country with her son and becomes the victim of malicious rumors within the village.

Anne Bronte's first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day. In writing the novel, Bronte drew on her own experiences, and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victorian governess, often stranded far from home, and treated with little respect...

Explores the turbulent lives of the three literary siblings and the oppressive times in which they lived, and offers insight into their classic nineteenth-century novels.

The English Bronte family, originally of Irish descent, produced three 19th century novelists: Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Charlotte is best known for Jane Eyre, Emily for writing Wuthering Heights, and Anne for The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

In a remote English village, three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, live a simple life with their brother, Branwell, and their father, the pastor Patrick Bronte. Although compelled to take posts as governesses or private tutors, the four siblings nurture their artistic aspirations. Branwell's poems begin to interest other writers and each of the sisters publishes a successful novel. The family's good fortune, however, is short lived, and soon...

Tells the stories of forty-six girls who were younger than twenty years of age when they changed the history of the world through amazing accomplishments.