Who wrote the novel Agnes Grey, in 1847?
"conversations with Rosalie Murray, whose careless treatment of the men who love her upsets Agnes. Maria H. Frawley notes that Agnes is isolated from a young age. She comes from a ""rural heritage"" and her mother brings up her sister and herself away from society. Once Agnes has become a governess, she becomes more isolated by the large distance from her family and further alienation by her employers. Agnes does not resist the isolation, but instead uses the opportunity for self-study and personal development. ""Agnes Grey"" was popular during what remained of Anne Brontë's life, despite the belief of many"
"more subdued claims admiring ""Agnes Grey"" with a less overt praise of Brontë's work than Moore. The genesis of ""Agnes Grey"" was attributed by Edward Chitham to the reflections on life found in Anne's diary of 31 July 1845. It is likely that Anne was the first of the Brontë sisters to write a work of prose for publication, although ""Agnes Grey"", ""Wuthering Heights"", and ""Jane Eyre"" were all published within the same year: 1847. Anne's novel was eventually published by Thomas Newby in a triple-volume format: Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" made up the first two volumes (by virtue of it"
"being the longer), while ""Agnes Grey"" made up the third. The original edition of ""Agnes Grey"", published in 1847, had numerous orthographic, punctuation, and other issues attributed to neglect by the publisher Newby. However, the second edition, published in 1850, had many changes after the careful editing of Charlotte Brontë. Agnes Grey is the daughter of Mr. Grey, a minister of modest means, and Mrs. Grey, a woman who left her wealthy family and married purely out of love. Mr. Grey tries to increase the family's financial standing, but the merchant he entrusts his money to dies in a wreck,"
"at 9 p. m. with ""Don't stay up late, Girls""!, then rewinding the clock and taking the stairs to his room upstairs. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"", and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"", appeared in 1847 after many tribulations, again for reasons of finding a publisher. The packets containing the manuscripts often returned to the parsonage and Charlotte simply added a new address and did this at least a dozen times during the year. The first one was finally published by Smith, Elder & Co in London, of which the 23-year-old owner George Smith had been specialised until then in publishing"
"of moral transformation in virtue. ""Agnes Grey"" is also an autobiographical novel with strong parallels between its events and Anne's own life as a governess; indeed, according to Charlotte Brontë, the story of Agnes largely stemmed from Anne's own experiences as a governess. Like Agnes, ""dear, gentle"" Anne was the youngest child of a poor clergyman. In April 1839, she took up a position as a governess with the Ingham family of Blake Hall, Mirfield, in Yorkshire, about 20 miles away from Haworth, to whom the Bloomfields bear some resemblance. One of the most memorable scenes from the novel, in"
"Elizabeth Caroline Grey Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869), aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and Penny Dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867. There is some controversy about the details of her life story, and if she actually authored any penny dreadfuls. Commenting on her literary reputation in 1859, American critic Samuel Austin Allibone said Grey ""has fairly earned a title to be ranked as one of the most popular novelists of the day."" That reputation has not lasted, her life and body"
"at the age of 30. ""Wuthering Heights"" was her only novel. Anne, born in Market Street Thornton on 17 January 1820, was a poet and novelist. She wrote a largely autobiographical novel entitled ""Agnes Grey"", but her second novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848), was far more ambitious. She died on 28 May 1849 in Scarborough at the age of 29. Patrick Brontë faced a challenge in arranging for the education of the girls of his family, which was barely middle class. They had no significant connections and he could not afford the fees for them to attend an"
"of poetry with her sisters (""Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell"", 1846) and two novels. ""Agnes Grey"", based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847. Her second and last novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848. Like her poems, both her novels were first published under the masculine pen name of Acton Bell. Anne's life was cut short when she died of what is now suspected to be pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29. Partly because the re-publication of ""The Tenant"
"""Wuthering Heights"" and ""Agnes Grey"", had launched a rumour that the three novels were the work of one author, understood to be Ellis Bell (Emily). George Smith was extremely surprised to find two gawky, ill-dressed country girls paralysed with fear, who, to identify themselves, held out the letters addressed to ""Messrs. Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell"". Taken by such surprise, he introduced them to his mother with all the dignity their talent merited, and invited them to the opera for a performance of Rossini's ""Barber of Seville"". Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" was published in 1847 under the masculine pseudonym Ellis"
"NOVELS MR. GRYCE AND AMELIA BUTTERWORTH SERIES OTHER MYSTERIES NON DETECTIVE NOVELS SHORT STORIES & NOVELETTES A Difficult Problem and other stories, featuring: Room Number 3, and Other Detective stories,(1905), featuring: The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange, (1915), featuring: Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called ""the mother of the detective novel"". She was born in Brooklyn, New York"
"The Man in Grey (novel) The Man in Grey was a novel by the British writer Lady Eleanor Smith first published in 1941. It was a melodrama set in Regency Britain. A young woman unhappily married to a cold aristocrat falls in love with a strolling actor, but her hopes of eloping to happiness are wrecked by an old school friend who murders her in order to be able to marry her husband. In 1943 the novel was adapted into a film by Gainsborough Pictures directed by Leslie Arliss and starring James Mason in the title role as well as"
"Gladys Lucy Adshead Gladys Lucy Adshead (April 25, 1896–1985) was a British-born writer of children's books. Adshead was born in Manchester, England, to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead. She was educated at Froebel Educational Institute, a teacher training college. She became a teacher and headmistress in private schools in England, where she was a member of the Royal Society of Teachers, and later in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois in the United States. Gladys Adshead was best known for her ""Brownie"" books, the first of which was published in 1938 by Oxford University Press and entitled ""Brownies - Hush""!."
"In 1844, Edgar Allan Poe published several works: ""The Spectacles"", ""The Balloon-Hoax"" and his final Dupin story ""The Purloined Letter"". In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe published his poem ""The Raven"" and a short story ""The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"". August Wilhelm von Schlegel died 12 May. In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett married Robert Browning. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë published ""Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell"". Edward Lear published his ""Book of Nonsense"". Fyodor Dostoevsky published ""Poor Folk"". In 1847, Anne Brontë published ""Agnes Grey"", Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"", and Charlotte Brontë published ""Jane Eyre"". Rymer"
"She died in Santa Rosa, California in 1985. Gladys Lucy Adshead Gladys Lucy Adshead (April 25, 1896–1985) was a British-born writer of children's books. Adshead was born in Manchester, England, to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead. She was educated at Froebel Educational Institute, a teacher training college. She became a teacher and headmistress in private schools in England, where she was a member of the Royal Society of Teachers, and later in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois in the United States. Gladys Adshead was best known for her ""Brownie"" books, the first of which was published in 1938 by"
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"
"Fifty Shades of Grey Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It is the first instalment in the ""Fifty Shades"" trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. It is notable for its explicitly erotic scenes featuring elements of sexual practices involving bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism (BDSM). Originally self-published as an ebook and a print-on-demand, publishing rights were acquired by Vintage Books in March 2012. ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" has topped best-seller lists around the world, selling over 125 million"
"are marked with a ""(CC)"" and those from ""The Other Mary Shelley"" with an ""(OMS)"". Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter"
"Bell, by Thomas Cautley Newby, in two companion volumes to that of Anne's (Acton Bell), ""Agnes Grey."" Controversial from the start of its release, its originality, its subject, narrative style and troubled action raised intrigue. Certain critics condemned it, but sales were nevertheless considerable for a novel from an unknown author and which defied all conventions. It is a work of black Romanticism, covering three generations isolated in the cold or the spring of the countryside with two opposing elements: the dignified manor of Thrushcross Grange and the rambling dilapidated pile of Wuthering Heights. The main characters, swept by tumults"
"and devotion. To other people's failings she was understanding and forgiving, but over herself she kept a continual and most austere watch, never allowing herself to deviate for one instant from what she considered her duty."" Emily Brontë has often been characterised as a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic and a visionary ""mystic of the moors"". Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" was first published in London in 1847 by Thomas Cautley Newby, appearing as the first two volumes of a three-volume set that included Anne Brontë's ""Agnes Grey"". The authors were printed as being Ellis and Acton Bell; Emily's"
"children of the Reverend Edmund Robinson and his wife Lydia, at Thorp Green Hall, a comfortable country house near York. Anne was employed at Thorp Green Hall from 1840 to 1845. The house appeared as Horton Lodge in her novel ""Agnes Grey"". Anne had four pupils: Lydia, aged 15, Elizabeth, aged 13, Mary, aged 12, and Edmund, aged 8. Initially, she encountered similar problems as she had experienced at Blake Hall. Anne missed her home and family, commenting in a diary paper in 1841 that she did not like her situation and wished to leave it. Her quiet, gentle disposition"
"Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter Mary was born, Mary was raised by Godwin, who was able to provide his daughter"
"have received grants. In some cases, these grants have been controversial due to their requiring research or teaching related to Rand. Novels: Other fiction: Non-fiction: Ayn Rand Ayn Rand (; born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, ""The Fountainhead"" and ""Atlas Shrugged"", and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with"
"costs. Their publisher, urged on by the success of ""Jane Eyre"", published ""Wuthering Heights"" and ""Agnes Grey"" in December 1847. They sold well, but ""Agnes Grey"" was outshone by Emily's more dramatic ""Wuthering Heights"". Anne's second novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", was published in the last week of June 1848. It was an instant, phenomenal success; within six weeks it was sold out. ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" is perhaps amongst the most shocking of contemporary Victorian novels. In seeking to present the truth in literature, Anne's depiction of alcoholism and debauchery was profoundly disturbing to 19th-century sensibilities. Helen"
"man with a depraved mind – fairly neutral about ""Agnes Grey"", more flattering in spite of certain commentators denouncing it as an affront to morals and good mores, for ""Jane Eyre"" which soon became what would be called today a best-seller. The pseudonymous (Currer Bell) publication in 1847 of ""Jane Eyre, An Autobiography"", established a dazzling reputation for Charlotte. In July 1848, Charlotte and Anne (Emily had refused to go along with them) travelled by train to London to prove to Smith, Elder & Co. that each sister was indeed an independent author, for Thomas Cautley Newby, the publisher of"
"is known. Elizabeth Grey worked at a London school for girls. In her spare time wrote silver fork novels, such as ""Sybil Lennard"" (1846), about a Swiss orphan who rises to become a governess in England; it has been described by John Sutherland as resembling the fiction of the Brontë sisters. She also wrote penny dreadfuls such as ""Murder Will Out"" (1860) and ""The Iron Mask"" (1847). Grey's ability to write both ""proper"" fiction for polite society, and sensational Gothic and penny dreadfuls (some of which were initially published anonymously), earned her a broad audience in her day. There is"
"of the story. Contrary to Haining's claim, no other editors have included the story in collections of vampire tales, and the provenance of the tale is suspect. Haining has espoused controversial literary positions before involving the alleged historicity of the popular penny dreadful ""Sweeney Todd"". Works by Elizabeth Caroline Grey. Elizabeth Caroline Grey Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869), aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and Penny Dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867. There is some controversy about the details of her life"
"was a dismal failure, with only two copies being sold in the first year. Anne, however, found a market for her more recent poetry. The ""Leeds Intelligencer"" and ""Fraser's Magazine"" published her poem ""The Narrow Way"" under her pseudonym, Acton Bell in December 1848. Four months earlier, in August, Fraser's Magazine had published her poem ""The Three Guides"". Even before the fate of the book of poems became apparent, the sisters began work on their first novels. Charlotte wrote ""The Professor"", Emily ""Wuthering Heights"", and Anne ""Agnes Grey"". By July 1846, a package with the three manuscripts was making the"
"popularity of her novel ""Marian Grey"" (1863) reportedly led to a jump in the paper's circulation by 50,000, and it reached 100,000 by 1865. Holmes was active in the Episcopal Church and its charitable activities. She started local activities to share her collection from her travels and education with young women. Holmes died in 1907, at the age of 82, in Brockport. Her obituary was published a few days later in the ""Nation"", reflecting her stature. Long excluded from literary histories of the nineteenth century written by men, the author was reappraised by scholars in the late 20th and early"
"Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called ""the mother of the detective novel"". She was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 11, 1846. Green had an early ambition to write romantic verse, and she corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, she produced her first and best known novel, ""The Leavenworth Case"" (1878), praised by Wilkie"
"George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, Imperial police officer, and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella ""Animal Farm"" (1945) and the dystopian novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949). His non-fiction works, including ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England,"
"""The Mysterious Marriage"" (1810) showing that the reading public was interested in her work. The London Literary Gazette described ""The Eve of St. Agnes"" as containing ""mysteries, love affairs, rewards and punishments, death to one hero, and a wife to the other."" Catherine George Ward Catherine Mason (born Catherine George Ward, 1787 – after 1833) was born in Scotland and is most recognised for her literary works of novels, poetry and children's fiction. Some of her most notable works are ""The Mysterious Marriage, The Rose of Claremont ""and ""The Eve of St Agnes"". Her story begins in 1810 when Ward"
"of work today are fairly obscure outside of a few specialised fields of study such as Victorian literature and vampire literature. Grey is probably most often remembered today as being the first woman to write and publish a vampire story; one of her earliest stories, ""The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress"", it was first published in 1828 in the weekly paper ""The Casket"". Elizabeth's maiden name was Duncan and she was the niece of ""Miss Duncan"", a famous actress of the late 18th century. Elizabeth married ""Colonel Grey"", a reporter for the ""Morning Chronicle"", about whom very little else"
"Susan Petigru King Susan Dupont Petigru King-Bowen (24 October 1824 – December 1875) was a 19th-century socialite, realist, fiction writer and novelist. Her work, which included ""Busy Moments of an Idle Woman"" (1853), ""Lily: A Novel"" (1855), ""Sylvia’s World: Crimes Which the Law Does Not Reach"" (1859), and ""Gerald Gray’s Wife"" (1864), focused on subversive portrayals of South Carolina aristocracy, in which men toyed with women’s affections, women plotted against one another’s best interests, and mothers forced daughters to choose wealth over romance. Due to her lack of in-text references to the American Civil War, slavery or the abolitionist movement,"