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    Agnes Grey (dramatic reading)
    Agnes Grey (dramatic reading)
    Agnes Grey (dramatic reading)
    Audiobook6 hours

    Agnes Grey (dramatic reading)

    Written by Anne Brontë

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era, as a governess to the children of the wealthy. In working with two different families, the Bloomfields and the Murrays, she comes to learn about the troubles that face a young woman who must try to rein in unruly, spoiled children for a living, and about the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values. After her father's death, Agnes opens a small school with her mother and finds happiness with a man who loves her for herself. (Summary by Wikipedia)


    Cast:
    Narrator/Mary Grey/Grandmama Bloomfield: CaprishaPage
    Agnes Grey: Amanda Friday
    Edward Weston: Max Körlinge
    Alice Grey: Tiffany Halla Colonna
    Richard Grey: Aidan Brack
    Mr. Murray/Uncle Robson: Anthony
    Mrs. Murray/Jem's Wife: Elizabeth Klett
    Rosalie Murray: Arielle Lipshaw
    Matilda Murray: Elizabeth Barr
    Mr. Hatfield: Algy Pug
    Jem/Mr. Smith: Martin Geeson
    Servant: Charlotte Duckett
    Nancy Brown: Beth Thomas
    Mrs. Bloomfield: Victoria Martin
    Tom Bloomfield: Grace
    Mary Ann Bloomfield: April Gonzales
    Mr. Bloomfield: Robert Hoffman
    Betty: Kristingj
    Audio edited by Amanda Friday

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Agnes Grey (dramatic reading)
    Author

    Anne Brontë

    Anne Brontë was born in Yorkshire in 1820. She was the youngest of six children and the sister of fellow novelists Charlotte and Emily, the authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights respectively. Her mother died when she was a baby and she was raised by her aunt and her father, The Reverend Patrick Brontë. Anne worked as a governess before returning to Haworth where she and her sisters published poems under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. She published her first novel, Agnes Grey in 1847 and this was followed by The Tenant of Wildfell Hallin 1848. She died from tuberculosis in 1849

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      Sweet, frustrating characters, predictable but it’s a good simple story.