A dimly lit photo of Anne Bronte’s novel Agnes Grey. The title and author name are at the top of the page in a blue banner. The bottom 2/3rds of the page show an old-fashioned water colour of a brown haired woman reading.

The back cover of Anne Bronte’s Agnes Grey. Blurb can be found here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/agnes-grey/anne-bront/robert-inglesfield/9780199296989

Book #6 of the #BookJourney and I thought I’d sprinkle another classic in there as part of the attempt to expand the literary palate. #AgnesGrey by #AnneBronte. I will say that once you get used to the writing style classics are great for the reminder that people have always been people.

A watercolour painting of writer Anne Bronte.

On this day in 1820 Anne Bronte was born.

The sister of Charlotte and Emily, she is best known for writing the novels 'Agnes Grey' and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Heights'.

Anne went to school in Mirfield, just outside Wakefield!

#OnThisDay #Anniversary #Authors #Annebronte #Brontes #AgnesGrey

Coming soon.

#AgnesGrey #AnneBronte #BronteSisters #GovernessNovel #VictorianLiterature #SocialRealism #AutobiographicalFiction #BronteClassic #19thCenturyFiction #WomenWriters

I longed to seek the retirement of my own room, or some sequestered nook in the grounds, that I might deliver myself up to my feelings—to weep my last farewell, and lament
my false hopes and vain delusions.

Anne Brontë, #AgnesGrey
#GothicWanderer

Literarischer #28Mai

„Was hatte ich damit zu tun, an jemanden zu denken, der nie an mich dachte?“

#AnneBrontë #AgnesGrey Tod 1849

#AgnesGrey -3,75⭐️

La pequeña de las Brontë se inspira en su propia experiencia como institutriz para hablar de la vulnerabilidad de la mujer (trabajadora) y de la mala educación como norma en las familias ricas. Debut desigual (aburrida a ratos y too preachy), pero con no pocas virtudes ⬇️

#BookSky

"Qué poco imagina la gente el daño que hacen a los niños riéndose de sus defectos y bromeando con cosas que una auténtica familia debería enseñarles a aborrecer".

#AnneBrontë #AgnesGrey

#BookSky #EndSpeciesism #Educación #Infancia

#Brontë May🌸

I loved #TheTenantOfWildfellHall last year, so I was in the mood for #AgnesGrey (thanx,library!). I wasn't ready for the 📈💔 amount of #AnimalAbuse, though (second family now. Is it over? 😰).

#WutheringHeights has been collecting dust at home for years. Did Anne call Emily? 😳

#BookSky

He had not forgotten that bluebells were numbered among my favourite flowers.
#AnneBrontë #AgnesGrey

When he comes into a poor body’s house a-seein’ sick folk, he like notices what they most stand i’ need on; an’ if he thinks they can’t readily get it therseln, he never says nowt about it, but just gets it for ’em.
#AnneBrontë
#AgnesGrey
#MrWeston

Brontë March over for another year.
#brontëmarch #marchreading #agnesgrey #annebrontë #fifteenwilddecembers #karenpowell #walkingtheinvisible #michaelstewart #agalaxyofgovernesses #beahowe #readeveryday #booklover

'What are your favourite flowers?'

'Primroses, bluebells, and heath-blossoms.'

'Not violets?'

'No; because, as you say, I have no particular associations connected with them; for there are no sweet violets among the hills and valleys round my home.'

#AnneBrontë
#AgnesGrey
#BookWormSat

a woman is holding a bouquet of flowers in her hands ALT: a woman is holding a bouquet of flowers in her hands

At length, however, he broke the pause by asking, with a certain quiet abruptness peculiar to himself, if I liked flowers.

'Yes; very much,' I answered, 'wild-flowers especially.'

'I like wild-flowers,' said he; 'others I don’t care about.'

#AnneBrontë
#AgnesGrey
#BookWormSat

#AgnesGrey, the most autobiographical Brontë novel of them all. @nickholland.bsky.social discusses the ways in which the book reflects #AnneBrontë 's life & its influence on Jane Eyre, while proudly showing off his wedding ring. Loved it!

youtu.be/B4_EaJsMnqc?...

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#Booksky. First read of 2025: #AgnesGrey.

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë book cover

Currently reading this by the “other” Brontë sister

#booksky #agnesgrey #annebrontë #brontësisters

Image of the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen with the language, "Well, and what was there in that?--Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?" The quote comes from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte.

Today's #QOTD comes from #AnneBronte's #AgnesGrey:

“Well, and what was there in that?-- Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?”