Discussion: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

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Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

January 2012 at Lisa F's.  We discussed Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey.
Those who read it please comment below and rate it 1-10 (10=spectacular, 1=you hated it).  A short review would be great too.
And if you really want to you can offer an overall rating and then rate different things.  I'm often tempted to rate the plot and the writing separately, for instance.

Don't you just love that cover on the upper right?  Actually all 3 covers were just too tempting to pass up. The one on the right seemed to sum up so much and the one to the left here I just fell in love with.  And the one on the upper left, I love as well even though it's more traditional.

If you haven't read it and still want to you can read the whole thing online here. (It was only about 150 pages).

You can also read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne's other novel that Charlotte so disapproved of.  It is more typical Bronte style though.

For those of you wanting to read a bit more about Anne and her sisters' lives you can visit the sites listed here.

You can find some odd and cool things too.
Here is a pretend Bronte sister power dolls ad (they look a lot like the angry ladies in waiting from Shrek 2, don't they):  http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/05/bronte_sister_power_dolls.html

And here some very cool literature-themed wood engravings including a scene from Agnes Grey where Mr. Weston picks the flowers for Agnes. (It wouldn't let me copy the image-it's the 4th picture from the right)
http://www.harrybrockway.com/#!portfolio/vstc1=folio-books