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Mr weston anne bronte6/25/2023 Mary Ann, six, refuses to learn her lessons, and even four-year-old Fanny is uncooperative. Tom, seven, is aggressive and enjoys tormenting animals. Bloomfield is cold instead of nurturing, and the three children Agnes tutors are difficult, disobedient, and stubborn. Though 18, she is the family pet, and they do not believe she is ready to leave home.Īgnes finds a position with the Bloomfields of Wellwood, a tradesman’s family, and she is dismayed to find that governessing does not live up to her romantic notions of guiding and shaping young minds. When the family’s fortune is lost through a failed investment, Agnes offers to take work as a governess. This guide uses the Wordsworth Classics print edition published in 1998, which includes a short biographical note that Charlotte Brontë wrote concerning the works of her sisters, Emily and Anne.Īgnes Grey lives with her clergyman father, resourceful mother, and older sister Mary in the north of England.
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