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Agnes Grey: Large Print | Anne Anne Bront�

Chapter 19: Agnes and her mother decide to open a school #thatletterfromhergrandfather #whataboutweston #pooragnes #pemberlittens

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Bookwormjillk I wish this book was about the mom instead of Agnes! What a lady! 2y

TheAromaofBooks @Bookwormjillk - Right?! What a response! #gomrsgrey 2y

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TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk oh I do agree! 2y

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk @TheAromaofBooks this is on my wish list FYI https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1526757605/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr= 2y

Ruthiella Yup, that grandpa is a real piece of work. I‘m happy at least that Agnes is away from the Murrays and with her mother. That‘s some comfort, at least. 2y

Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie ohhhh good find 2y

dabbe Found this interesting article re: Anne Bronte and how AGNES GREY was written before JANE EYRE and that AGNES was more of a feminist novel than Charlotte's Jane. Interested to hear what you #pempberlittens think. The link is below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vgw5x14GOmRCN_nvjb3cwzmHG8GxRlsh/view?usp=shari... 2y

willaful @dabbe oh cool, thanks for sharing.

I was doing some reading about ToWH and discovered that Charlotte suppressed it for years after Anne's death. I think she had some serious jealousy issues.

@bookwormjillk she is an awesome woman. @TheBookHippie so Agnes's mom likely based on her own mother? I may be about to do a deep dive on Bronte history.... 😁

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TheBookHippie @willaful Bronte is my favorite basically because these dark books saved preteen & teenager me .. they‘re part of me. I do think it‘s her mother in this character. I read in a feminist article that Charlotte waited to be sure it was published since they were women but 😝 that was eons ago ! 2y

TheBookHippie @willaful I think it was strong willed and minded females fighting to get it done 👀. I‘m sure the rivalry was 🤯🤯🤯. Survival of the fittest! Ha. I do like all of Bronte all the sisters. 2y

TheBookHippie @dabbe I think sisterhood by blood and not when you‘re fighting to get anything done is complicated. What a time they lived in. To try and pit them against each other takes away their sheer talent as female writers and makes it look like that‘s what females do. I think Agnes is like nonfiction and Jane is romance. Styling differences. As were they as people. 2y

mcctrish Grandpa is a total shit! What will the Murray‘s say when Agnes drops this bomb?! ?? I must say that book about Mama Brontë looks intriguing @TheBookHippie and I have to say when we read Wuthering Heights in high school I thought I‘d died and gone to heaven 2y

TheBookHippie @mcctrish same. I read it in middle school! 2y

eeclayton @dabbe Thanks for sharing. I didn't know that Agnes had been written first. I see where the comparison of the two books come from, but I think it's unfair to compare them because they focus on such different things. 2y

willaful @mcctrish @TheBookHippie I loved the 1930s movie but the book was too much for me as a teen. I should really read it again now. I adored all of Janes books though (except I think I might not have read Shirley. Have to keep that in mind for the future too.) 2y

mcctrish @willaful I reread WH in my 30‘s and I totally did not have the same reaction as I did at 15 🤣 teenage angst might be needed to appreciate Heathcliffe 2y

willaful @mcctrish I was more the “Non-threatening Boys“ magazine type. 😂 https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Non-Threatening_Boys_Magazine 2y

dabbe @TheBookHippie TOTALLY agree! We get a much more serious look at what it was like to truly be a governess in Agnes more than we do with Jane and her ONE pupil. It's like realism vs romanticism with the two sisters giving both views. 🤗 2y

dabbe @eeclayton It seems the author of that article is definitely #teamagnes and wanted to make the case that Anne got there first with her governess book. Anne's works have always been slighted in favor of WH and JE, so perhaps the author wanted to give a big shoutout for Anne. 😊 2y

Clare-Dragonfly Grandpa might take the coveted #worstcharacteraward but competition is fierce! 2y

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Agnes Grey: Large Print | Anne Anne Bront�

Chapter 15: what a spoiled brat! #dontstealweston #youdontevenwanthim #horriblehuman #hopingwestonseesthroughher #staytuned #pemberlittens

IndoorDame I could be being naive here, but I have faith in Weston. 2y

BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame normally I would, but these Brontë girls can‘t be trusted ?? 2y

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IndoorDame @BarkingMadRead haha, so true! They are a gloomy lot 😂 2y

mcctrish I‘m with @IndoorDame ( but it is true about the Brontës ?) 2y

Ruthiella I‘d like to think that Weston is impervious to Rosalie‘s machinations! 🤞 2y

Bookwormjillk 🤞 2y

Clare-Dragonfly @IndoorDame I agree! I think if anything he‘s surprised that Rosalie isn‘t as empty-headed as he thought. 2y

willaful My secret hope: Hatfield (?) will get a huge inheritance and Rosalie will suffer torments, bwahaha! Though of course that would also reward him and he's a horrible human being too.

So someone on mastodon was saying that Anne was the true feminist of the Brontes and... I'm really not seeing it. Maybe I'd have to read her other book again. 2y

BarkingMadRead @willaful that would be amazing, so long as he marries someone other than Rosalie 🤣 2y

willaful @BarkingMadRead Yes, and someone who will make him abjectly miserable for the rest of his life. 😈 2y

BarkingMadRead @willaful yessssssss 🤣🤣 2y

TheBookHippie @willaful I never got that either I‘ve read all of Bronte more than once except this one and I just do not see it yet? 2y

TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead I love Bronte but I‘m way in the minority 🤣🤣 2y

dabbe I do think a feminist “blooming“ of an idea is shown in THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL. Helen does leave her husband (unheard of then)--even though she goes back to nurture him when he's dying. In Agnes, we get to witness her passions because she's telling us the story, but she hasn't exerted herself outwardly yet. I'm hoping she finds a way to show her true self and blast these a-holes to kingdom come. #aweebitharsh #buttheyarejerks #teamagnes 2y

willaful @dabbe #righttherewithyou #butnotoptimistic #teamagnesandweston #gimmetheromance 2y

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