![]() ![]() John Keats is one – young, idealistic, passionate and fated to die early, he pursued a life which furnished the myths of Romantic poetry as a whole. ![]() A scene in which a character seduces and then haughtily rejects a suitor’s advances is redolent of Brontë’s satiric view of British class snobbery.Ĭertain literary figures are archetypes of the literature they created. ![]() Grey speaks with a clear and gentle British accent. One Murray daughter sounds condescending and calculating, and the other child is a hoyden with rough and crude speech patterns, even though her family is a member of the gentry. Young Tom Bloomfield reveals his temperament through nasally condescending tones, while his younger sister simpers and whines. Bavidge’s British-laced reading is perfectly tuned to Grey’s efforts to make her way in an unsympathetic world as the governess tries to instill her charges with good sense and kindness, but is confronted with insolence, prejudice, and snobbery. Brontë’s 1847 novel tells the story of governess Grey’s struggles with the undisciplined Bloomfield children and the callous Murray siblings. The only respectable calling for poor but educated young women in Victorian England was that of governess. Titles by Anne Brontë Titles by Anne Brontë Agnes Grey (unabridged) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (unabridged) Reviews ![]()
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