![]() ![]() It may suffer in readers’ minds by comparison for its lack of doomed love, angst, pathetic fallacy and the supernatural. Compared to Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey is altogether more piano. ![]() ![]() It is indeed a disgrace that I had not read it before, and that I had neglected Anne Bronte for the more over-wrought charms of her two sisters. My latest choice, Anne Bronte’s Agnes Grey, has moved me in a much quieter way, but possibly no less deeply. I found my choices for Shelf of Shame 1 and 2 challenging and exhilarating: I had no idea of the excitement I would feel at the passion and relevance of Orwell’s The Road To Wigan Pier until I finally read it and in the case of Mrs Dalloway, my joy at finally cracking what I had thought was some sort of impenetrable code still remains with me. This is my third go at pulling a book off my Shelf of Shame. ![]()
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