Agnes Grey. Wordsworth Classics

"Agnes Grey" is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such "Agnes Grey" has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral evolution of English society during the last century.