title: Agnes Grey: (Starbooks Classics Editions) (Collection of Bront sisters) (Volume 3)
author: Anne Bront
description: Anne Bront (17 January 1820  28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bront literary family.<br /><br /> The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Bront lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of 19 she left Haworth and worked as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846) and two novels. Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847. Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848. Anne's life was cut short when she died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29. <br /><br /> Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Bront after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights. However her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature.
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  CHAPTER I—THE 
  PARSONAGE 
  All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, 
  the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial 
  in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compen-
  sates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be 
  the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to 
  judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and 
  entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. 
  Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, 
  and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will 
  candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to 
  the most intimate friend.
  My father was a clergyman of the north of England, 
  who was deservedl