It is a powerful and imaginative tale with marvellous descriptions of the wild beauty of the moors.Īgnes Grey, by the youngest sister Anne, is a moving and simply written story of a governess's life, again based on her own unhappy experiences. Wuthering Heights, Emily's only prose work, though bitterly attacked in its day, is recognised today as one of the greatest of English romantic novels. The most famous of them, Jane Eyre, is a deeply-felt, passionate story, based in part on Charlotte's personal experiences, strong in situation and characterisation. The three novels in this volume form a representative cross-section of their mature work. Their contacts with the outside world were brief and often unhappy, they fought a continual, hopeless battle against failing health, yet their combined willpower, energy and talent resulted in a stream of letters, stories, poems and novels, including two undoubted masterpieces, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Here were three girls who spent the greater part of their tragically brief lives in an austere, isolated parsonage on the Yorkshire moors. The story of the Bronte sisters is surely unique in literary history. That Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily) and Agnes Grey (Anne), works of such lasting quality, were produced in such a short space of time is incredible enough: that it was all the output of three sisters living straitened lives in a lonely Yorkshire village was extraordinary. (Harvard style has been used).This collection brings together three pieces of work that, incredibly, were all published within a single year. Finally, this study will aim to shed light on the significant role of the governess in the shaping of the story through these novels. In addition, it will also examine the possible reasons which made Jane and Anne decide to take the role of governess and how the two heroines, Jane and Anne, saw themselves in that role. Moreover, the paper will describe the difficulties and struggles which arise in the novels from the position of a governess. In this piece of writing, two novels will be compared, namely Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë in which the two sisters featured their heroines as governesses. The Bronte Sister: Three Novels: Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey Published: 1 December 2010 ISBN: 9780143105831 Imprint: Penguin Classics. This study will examine the background of the governess in the nineteenth century and its main focus will be on the governess’ role in the literary works of the two Brontë sisters, Charlotte and Anne. Therefore it is not surprising that education plays a prominent part in their novels. Charlotte and Anne Brontë were themselves educators.

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