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an open book with drawings on it and the title page in black ink is being held up

For the first time, as I annotated a book I drew illustrations on some of the pages. 10/10 recommend. In the future, I’m going to keep an eye out for space in my annotating copies. I want to go back and do some of f my other faves again.🥰 Agnes Grey is such a dear classic. It’s a very different kind of book from, say, her sister’s Jane Eyre or her biographer’s North & South and therefore can’t rightly be compared to those large volumes. Yet, somehow in this short and very personal fiction…

the title page for agnes's grey

Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847 The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.

an open book with writing on it and two hands holding each other's hand

For the first time, as I annotated a book I drew illustrations on some of the pages. 10/10 recommend. In the future, I’m going to keep an eye out for space in my annotating copies. I want to go back and do some of f my other faves again.🥰 Agnes Grey is such a dear classic. It’s a very different kind of book from, say, her sister’s Jane Eyre or her biographer’s North & South and therefore can’t rightly be compared to those large volumes. Yet, somehow in this short and very personal fiction…

an open book with some drawings on it

For the first time, as I annotated a book I drew illustrations on some of the pages. 10/10 recommend. In the future, I’m going to keep an eye out for space in my annotating copies. I want to go back and do some of f my other faves again.🥰 Agnes Grey is such a dear classic. It’s a very different kind of book from, say, her sister’s Jane Eyre or her biographer’s North & South and therefore can’t rightly be compared to those large volumes. Yet, somehow in this short and very personal fiction…

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