Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Bronte. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Bronte"s own experiences in the field. It was Bronte"s first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte"s novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.The Irish novelist George Moore praised Agnes Grey as "the most perfect prose narrative in English letters."The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era - the role of governess to the children of the wealthy. In working with two different families (the Bloomfields and the Murrays), she comes to learn about the troubles that face a young woman who must try to rein in unruly, spoiled children for a living, and about the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values. After her father"s death, Agnes opens a small school with her mother and finds happiness with a man who loves her for herself. They have three children at the end of the novel, Edward, Agnes, and Mary. (Quote from wikipedia.org)About the AuthorAnne Bronte (1820 - 1849)Anne Bronte (January 17, 1820 - May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family.The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Bronte lived most of her life with her family at the remote village of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of nineteen, she left Haworth working as a governess between 1839 and