Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte never stood a chance. First published in tandem with Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, several months after Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre had become a sensation, Anne Bronte’s novel was easily dismissed as second-rate. and that judgement seems to have stuck for the most part. Anne’s second novel, a far superior one in my view, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was so … Continue reading Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte