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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 (1820-1849) was an English novelist and poet and the youngest of a trio of legendary writers who became known as "the Brontë sisters." Each of the three siblings managed to create novels that would become classics of English literature: Charlotte's "Jane Eyre," Emily's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall." The youngest of six children born to clergyman Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria, Anne was home-schooled after two of her older sisters died of tuberculosis which they were believed to have acquired while attending the Clergy Daughter's School. The four surviving siblings, Branwell, Emily, Anne and Charlotte, created an imaginary world called "Glass Town," and would each contribute poems, stories and geographical details of this mythical place to help them escape the difficulties and isolation of their childhood and this early, escapist writing would plant the seeds for their later literary success. At the time, the idea of publishing a female author was frowned upon, thus the sisters created a pseudonymous trio of brothers - Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily) and Acton (Anne) Bell - in order to get their books into print. Anne actually completed two full novels during her brief career: "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," but the enjoyment of their literary success was short-lived. The family suffered the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne in just a few short months in late 1848/early 1949 (the latter two of tuberculosis) and Charlotte herself, while struggling through her first, difficult pregnancy, died in 1854 at the age of thirty-eight. Few families in history have produced as many literary powerhouses as the Brontë sisters and their works have been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen.

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