Entertaining the Alien

3. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë#

I have a feeling that most of the reading I do this semester is going to be reading for school, considering how fast I'll be moving through the Brontë sisters' novels. So...

The youngest of the three, Anne doesn't get the same respect her older sisters do, I think largely because of the image Charlotte presented of her after she died: the meek, retiring baby sister. Anne's first novel details the true story of what it meant to be a governess, with a strong touch of Austenesque romance at the end. I enjoyed it very much; aside from being a quick and easy read, it gives some interesting insight day to day life of the era.

And if nothing else, I wanted to smack most of the kids Agnes had to take care of, as well as their parents.